A Meal of Thorns

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Guest: Ursula WhitcherTitle: Burning Bright by Melissa ScottHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:North Continent RibbonIndra Das’s The Last Dragoners of BowbazarFonda Lee's Green Bone books & game thereof w/ James Mendez HodesBruce Coville's Aliens Ate My Homework & Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon HatcherThomas Ha's Uncertain SonsScott’s Trouble And Her Friends & Astreiant series, most recently Point of HeartsC.S. Lewis's PerelandraMargaret Weis & Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance novelsDon Daglow’s Neverwinter NightsCommedia dell'arteThe Marvel Cinematic Universe franchiseLAN partiesC.J. Cherryh's Foreigner booksArkardy Martine's Teixcalaan booksIain M. Banks' Player of GamesNeal Stephenson's Snow CrashCameron Reed's Fortunate FallIain Softley’s HackersWilliam Gibson's Blue Ant trilogyCharlie Jane AndersBruce SterlingMichael Swanwick's Stations of the TideUrsula's website & Bluesky

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Guest: Joy Sanchez-TaylorTitle: The Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Author of ColorRoutledge Handbook of Co-FuturismsDispelling Fantasies: Author of Color Re-Imagine a GenreIbi Zoboi's SkinExamples of YA novels in verse from the Boston Public LibraryLiliana Colanzi You Glow in the Dark, translated by Chris AndrewsCenter for Fiction BrooklynPuppygateJemisin’s 2018 Hugo Acceptance SpeechSylvia Moreno Garcia, Nnedi Okorafor, Nghi VoJemisin's Inheritance Trilogy, The City We BecameTomi Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and BoneMoses Ose Utomi’s The Lies of the AjungoUrsula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”Octavia E. Butler’s Parable seriesThe Elder Scrolls games Morrowind & SkyrimJemisin on race in SkyrimMarlon James’ Black Leopard, Red WolfLatinx Visions Conference, Nov 3-7Marianna EnriquezAnanda Lima's CraftColson Whitehead, Amal El-MohtarNghi Vo's Singing Hills & The City In GlassJoy’s BlueskySuzan Palumbo, Zig Zag ClaybourneVICFAWorld Fantasy Convention

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Guest: Zachary GillanTitle: Authority by Jeff VanderMeerHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:Zach’s Profane Illuminations column at ARBRobert AickmanBothayna Al-Essa’s The Book-Censor's Library, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman & Sawad HussainBohumil Hrabal’s Too Loud A Solitude, translated by Michael Henry HeimAnnihilation, Acceptance, and AbsolutionVanderMeer’s blogVanderMeer’s Ambergris: City of Saints and Madmen; Shriek: An Afterword; FinchAnn & Jeff VanderMeer’s The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark StoriesMKUltraStanislaw Lem’s Solaris, translated by Joanna Kilmartin and Steve Cox (from Jean-Michel Jasiensko’s French translation) and Bill Johnston (from the Polish)Boris & Arkady Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic, translated by Olena BormashenkoAndrei Tarkovsky's Solaris and StalkerAlex Garland's AnnihilationCormac McCarthy's The RoadKay Chronister's Desert CreaturesRoland Emmerich’s The Day After TomorrowDamon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta’s The LeftoversBruce Timm and Eric Radomski’s Batman: the Animated SeriesTimothy Morton’s Dark Ecology and other workVanderMeer’s Hummingbird SalamanderThomas Ha's Uncertain SonsJean-Pierre Jeunet’s Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain

Host: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:World Science Fiction Convention in SeattleThe Hugo AwardsNorwesconKevin Black - Publications Division HeadCatherine Hardwicke's Twilight, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer"Full Moon" by the Black GhostsArticle about John Anderson’s Beachcomber Museum, with link to the short documentaryDr. Kaitlyn CasimoThe Allen InstituteBrandon O'Brien - Poet Laureate for the Seattle WorldconThe Speculative Poetry InitiativeInterstellar Flight PressThe Translated Hugo Initiative“Summit Sound” by the Jack Straw Cultural Center“Mole” by Elizabeth McQueen“What You have become” by Kate ClarkOlympia Coffee RoastingThe Mountain in the Sea by Ray NaylerAlien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky99% Invisible readalong of Robert Caro’s The Power BrokerHugos ThereHugo Girl!Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right by Jordan S. CarrollAbigail NussbaumSFPoetry.orgStrange Horizons, Uncanny, Asimov’s, AnalogCalypso by Oliver K. Langmead

Guest: Karlo Yeager RodríguezTitle: Stone of Farewell by Tad WilliamsHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:Kim Stanley Robinson’s Aurora, and our episode on itK.J. Parker's Making HistoryJared Diamonds’ Guns, Germs, and SteelDavid Eddings’ Belgeriad & MallorianMichael Whelan & Darrell K. SweetGeorge R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & FirePeter Beagle forward to The Lord of the RingsThe Clone Wars meme "The what?"ElfQuest by Wendy & Richard Pini et al.Katherine Kurtz’s Deryni novelsHidetaka Miyazaki & Yui Tanimura’s Elden RingT.H. WhiteBrandon SandersonRobert Jordan’s Wheel Of TimeH.P. Lovecraft’s The Mountains of Madness & The Case of Charles Dexter Ward"A Line of Ink, Stretching Back Like A Shadow"

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Featuring interviews with:Rae Borman @ ReaderconRiley @ Lovestruck BooksHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:Rae BormanNew England Finger DancersNaomi Novik’s ScholomanceBrandon Mull’s FablehavenKatherine Rundell’s Impossible CreaturesJames BlishJoanna Russ’s The Female ManBenjamin Rosenbaum & our episode on Fire LogicSunny Moraine & our episode on Pattern RecognitionBeneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Strange HorizonsWill McMahonNEA grant cuts and translated SF: 3% Podcast, Adam Morgan’s LARB article, and Strange Horizon’s reviews & podcast on the subject.Eden Kupermintz & our episode on The SilmarillionThe Translated Hugo Initiative: translatedhugo.orgRenay's "That's a Nice Review You've Got There"Michael CiscoJon Stone’s The Monster At The End of This BookGeorge Howell & Broadsheet coffeeChip Pons's Winging it With YouSarah McLeanOmegaverse (do be careful where you look that up)The Ripped BodiceGrump & SunshineRead My Lips BostonHarvard Coop Bookstore, Trident, Purple CouchCandlewick PressIngram distributorsCat Sebastian's We Could Be So Good & Star ShippedRachel Reid's The Shots You TakeAdam Silvera Sarah J. MaasRebecca Yarros’s Fourth WingS.T. Gibson’s Evocation & AscencionRina Kent, Navessa AllenHeather Bartos’s QuickiesEmily Henry, Tessa Bailey, Sarah McLean, Kim SwizzEverina Maxwell’s Winter Orbit

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Abigail NussbaumTitle: Excession by Iain M. BanksHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:VectorLos Angeles Review of BooksThe GuardianStrange HorizonsLawyers, Guns & MoneyWarren ZevonAsking the Wrong QuestionsAbigail’s Track ChangesColourfields by Paul KincaidNina Allan’s Granite Silence and The Art of Space TravelEd Park’s An Oral History of AtlantisBanks’ Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons, & The Player of GamesFully Automated Luxury Gay Space CommunismStar TrekJohn le CarréAndorTransmentation Transience by Darkly LemOutside Context Problems & Aggressive Hegemonizing SwarmsStanislaw LemKubrick/Clarke's 2001Paul Kincaid's biography of BanksMaurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things AreC.J. CherryhYudhanjaya Wijeratne's Salvager booksGreg EganAnn Leckie's Imperial RadchYoon Ha Lee's Machineries of EmpireBanks’ Look to WindwardAbigail's BlueskyKim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the FutureNed Beauman's Venomous LumpsuckerNeal Stephenson's Termination Shock

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Arkady MartineTitle: 40,000 in Gehenna by C.J. CherryhHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:Vote in the Ignytes!Our episode with Archita MittraA Memory Called Empire, A Desolation Called Peace, Rose/House, "Three Faces of a Beheading"Mick Herron’s Slow HorsesPip Adams' AuditionAndré Alexis’s Other WorldsThomas Ha’s Uncertain SonsStephen Sondheim's AssassinsCherryh’s Cyteen, Downbelow Station, ForeignerWatsonian vs. Doylist readingsThe Faded Sun, Hunter of WorldsLeonard Cohen's "The Future"Theodore Sturgeon's "The Golden Helix"Internet Science Fiction Database (ISFDB)Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, Rocannon's WorldJoanna Russ's The Female ManAnne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of PernSerpent's ReachAmal El-MohtarAnaïs Mitchell’s HadestownEmmanuel Levinas & Martin BuberOctavia E. Butler"Third Person Intense Internal"Jane Alison's Meander, Spiral, ExplodeElizabeth BearAnn Leckie, Tamsyn Muir, Jeff VanderMeerAncillary JusticeLois McMaster BujoldSeth Dickinson's The Traitor Baru Cormorant & our episode on itMax Gladstone's Craft SequenceA Pattern LanguageDavid Brin, Vernor VingeArkady's BlueskyLouis Kahn4th Street FantasyViable ParadiseWisconWesley AndrewsThe BriarSK CoffeeBogart's DoughnutNortheast Tea HouseDreamHavenUncle Hugo’sDelany's The Jewel-Hinged Jaw and The Motion of Light in WaterCherryh's Wave Without A ShoreGreg Egan's PhoresisKathy Mar's "Forty Thousand in Gehenna" from the album "Finity's End and other Songs of the Station Trade"Wizards vs. Lesbians episode with Ann Leckie on C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: andré m. carringtonTitle: Death of the Author by Nnedi OkoraforHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:andré’s Speculative Blackness, The Black Fantastic, and Audiofuturism (forthcoming)The Eaton ConferenceMalik Gaines & Alexandro Segade's cosmic opera Star Choir, based on the work of Octavia E. ButlerHanna Yanagahira's To ParadiseTochi Onyebuchi’s Harmattan SeasonGeorge R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and FireN.K. JemisinMichael Zapata’s The Lost Book of Adana MoreauTom Hanks’ That Thing You DoAndew Stanton’s Wall-EBecky Chambers' Monk & RobotOlaf StapledonKim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Futureandré's BlueskyAudio.futurism Instagram

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Roseanna PendleburyTitles: The 2025 Hugo Novel & Novella ListHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:Hugo Novella Finalists:The Brides of High Hill by Nghi VoThe Butcher of the Forest by Premee MohamedNavigational Entanglements by Aliette de BodardThe Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia SamatarThe Tusks of Extinction by Ray NaylerWhat Feasts at Night by T. KingfisherHugo Novel Finalists:Alien Clay by Adrian TchaikovskyThe Ministry of Time by Kaliane BradleyService Model by Adrian TchaikovskySomeone You Can Build a Nest In by John WiswellA Sorceress Comes to Call by T. KingfisherThe Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson BennettThe Clarke Award listPaul Kincaid’s CoulorfieldsRoseanna’s “A Path Through the Landscape” for A Reader of Else, plus Paul Kincaid’s “The Books That Made Me” for Through the dark labyrinthNnedi Okorafor’s BintiCasella’s idea of a Hugo for Best Translated WorkRenay's Hugo Spreadsheet of DoomAlex Jeffers’s A Mourning CoatLorraine Wilson’s Last to DrownThe Ursula K. Le Guin PrizeThe Ignyte AwardsPremee Mohamed’s The Siege of Burning GrassVajra Chandraskera’s RakesfallJared Pechaček’s The West PassageSeth Dickinson’s Exordia and The Traitor Baru CormorantEmet North’s In UniversesEden Robin’s Remember You Will DieScott Guild's PlasticAliya Whiteley's Three Eight OneT. Kingfisher’s Saint of Steel booksMarie Brennan's A Natural History of DragonsRobert Jackson Bennett’s Divine Cities and Founders trilogiesAdrian Tchaikovsky’s House of Open WoundsGreg EganCharlie Stross's Neptune’s BroodZachary Gillan’s “Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism”Foz Meadow’s A Strange and Stubborn EnduranceRoseanna's review of Someone To Build A Nest InBrad Wright’s TravelersHelen MacDonald and Sin Blaché’s ProphetRoseanna’s Small Press Dispatch columnNerds of a Feather

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Maia Gil′AdíTitle: The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael ZapataHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:Palgrave SFF: A New CanonThe Zombie ArchiveDoom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of ViolenceAugustina Bazterrica's Tender is the FleshFernanda Trias' Pink SlimeKazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me GoColson Whitehead's Zone OneToni Morrison's BelovedFernanda Melchor's Hurricane SeasonIndrapramit DasBrendan Shay Basham's Swim Home to the Vanished & Casella’s reviewMariana Enriquez's Our Share of NightFredric JamesonChicago Review of Books AwardsIlana Masad’s “Holocaust Beach Reads” for The Maris ReviewJason (Friday the 13th)Simón BolívarAugust Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, H.P. Lovecraft, C.L. MooreMoebius/Jean GiraudAncient AliensBlake Crouch’s Dark Matter & adaptationStuds TerkelUS Occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1916Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoJonbar pointsAimee Pokwatka's Self-Portrait with NothingLavie Tidhar's The Circumference of the Earth & Unholy LandRob Nixon's Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the PoorSesshu Foster's Atomic AztecsMaia on Bluesky

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Sean McTiernanTitle: Dreams of Amputation by Gary J. ShipleyHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate DollarhydeReferences:The SFUltra podcastAlasdair Gray’s Lanark & Poor ThingsJames Joyce’s UlyssesFredric JamesonAbsolute DC comicsMichael Comeau’s HellbertaAlan Grant & John Wagner’s DoomlordRay Nayler’s Where the Axe is BuriedNeil Sharpson’s When The Sparrow FallsMichael Mann's BlackhatLater Die HardsTony Scott’s Enemy of the StateJean BaudrillardShipley’s Stratagem of the Corpse, Crypt(o)spasm, and Serial Killing: A Philosophical AnthologyDennis CooperBlake Butler’s “Sci-Fi Doesn’t Have to Be Dominated by Horny Bro Wizards” for ViceDarko SuvinManuela Draeger's Kree (and Antoine Volodine’s other work)Mark DanielewskiB.R. YeagerApocalypse PartyWilliam S. Burrough’s Naked LunchNeal StephensonDaniel DennettMemeticsPhilip K. Dick’s A Scanner DarklyJ.G. Ballard, M. John Harrison, John UpdikeBlake Butler’s Uxa.gov & the SFUltra episodeChristopher Priest’s “Hull 0, Scunthorpe 3”Brian Evenson, Pierre GuyotatHarrison's Nova SwingTad Williams' OtherlandDerek Raymond (Rober Cook)’s He Died With His Eyes OpenThomas Metzinger The Ego TunnelBernard Wolfe’s LimboEvenson’s Last Days / Brotherhood of MutilationWilliam Gibson, Bruce SterlingWarhammer 40kBallard's CrashCurt Siodmak’s Donovan's BrainMatt from BookpilledNick LandCCRU & Dark EnlightenmentBaudrillard’s The Transparency of Evil, Cool Memories, The Perfect CrimeMark Fisher, Kodwu Eshun, Kode9Fisher’s “Exiting the Vampire Castle”Andrea DworkinBrion GysinTravis Baldree's Legends and LattesWalter Hill's The DriverBrian CatlingIan SinclairSFUltra episodes on Lanark, Poor Things, and Catling

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Christian P. HainesTitles: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein, and The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz Host: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscriber: Kate DollarhydeReferences:Stephen King's The Shining and CarrieRafael Bernal’s His Name Was DeathMichel Nieva’s Dengue BoyDaryl Gregory’s When We Were RealAdrian Tchaikovsky’s Service Model, Christian’s review for ARBIo9Our Opinions Are CorrectHeinlein’s Starship TroopersChristian’s The Terraformers review for LARBNewitz’s AutonomousHeinlein’s Farmer in the Sky, The Rolling StonesArcherMilton FriedmanOrwell’s 1984Rand’s Atlas ShruggedJames S.A. Corey’s The ExpanseKim Stanley Robinson’s Mars TrilogyUrsula K. Le Guin’s The DispossessedIan McDonald’s New Moon trilogyFrank Herbert’s DuneSamuel R. Delany’s Babel-17Le Guin’s The Left Hand of DarknessJo Walton's Among Others and our episode on itHolly Jean Buck’s After Geoengineering"Engineering Swallows Up Politics"Neal Stephenson’s Termination ShockKSR’s AuroraMcKenzie Wark’s Molecular RedUlrich Haarbürste’s Roy Orbison Wrapped in ClingfilmStar Trek's “Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations”Spinoza’s idea of conatusWalter Kaufman's introduction to Martin Buber's I and ThouKant's Categorical ImperativeAbbot ElementaryDelany’s Trouble On TritonOctavia E. Butler’s Parable of the TalentsMarx’s CapitalJohn Brunner’s Stand on ZanzibarKohei Sato’s Slow Down: The Degrowth ManifestoKSR’s The Ministry for the Future, New York 2140Le Guin’s The Word for World is ForestGamers with GlassesFive Theses on Antifascist Game Criticism

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Marita ArvanitiTitle: Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope MirrleesHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:A Meal of Thorns and the Ancillary Review of Books are Hugo finalists! We are delighted and honored; a big congratulations to all the finalists.Dianna Wynne Jones, Greer Gilman, Elizabeth BearDianna Wynne Jones’ Fire and HemlockElizabeth Hand’s Mortal LovePamela Dean’s Tam LinTerri Windling & Ellen Datlow edited fairytale collectionsRobin Hobb’s Mad Ship Patrick O'Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin booksAmal El-Mohtar’s The River Has RootsRobert Jackson Bennett’s A Drop of CorruptionE.R. EddisonLaurie J. Marks’ Elemental Logic seriesKatherine Arden’s The Bear and the NightingaleEuripedes' The BacchaeFriedrich Nietzsche's The Birth of TragedyMichael Swanwick’s Hope in the MistJ.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit & The Lord of the RingsC.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia, specifically Prince CaspianRobert Luketic’s Legally BlondeEdgar Allen Poe, Julio Cortázar, Franz Kafka, H.P. LovecraftUrsula K. Le Guin’s The Farthest ShoreAnne Carson’s translation of BakkhaiChristina Rossetti’s Goblin MarketSusanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr NorrellFritz Lang’s MetropolisN.K. Jemisin’s The Hundred Thousand KingdomsSofia Samatar's Olondrian novelsSylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly WillowesNaomi Mitchison’s To the Chapel Perilous and Memoirs of a SpacewomanT.H. White, Tanith LeeEllen Kushner’s Thomas the RhymerJo Walton’s Among OthersKat Howard’s Roses and RotElizabeth Hand’s Waking the MoonTerri Windling’s The Wood WifeGuardian Article on romantasyCopyright romantasy caseSarah J. MaasJacqueline Carey Kushiel's DartNicholas Stuart Gray’s Seven SwansMarita’s Instagram

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Archita MittraTitle: Among Others by Jo WaltonHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:Eliza Chan’s Fathomfolk & Archita’s reviewSue Lynn Tan's ImmortalLavanya Lakshminarayan's Interstellar Megachef & The Ten Percent ThiefMichael Nieva's Dengue BoyIsaac Fellman's Notes from a RegicideUrsula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of HeavenErnest Cline's Ready Player OneStranger ThingsJ.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the RingsJame Tiptree, Jr.Samuel R. Delany's Babel-17List of books mentioned in Among OthersAnne Rice Vampire ChroniclesC.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of NarniaLe Guin’s “Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?” from The Language of the NightKurt Vonnegut’s Cat's CradleLe Guin’s The Dispossessed and Delany’s Trouble on TritonWalton’s Informal History of the HugosC.J. Cherryh's Gate of IvrelArchita's reviews @ Strange Horizons & LocusArchita on Twitter, Bluesky, InstagramArchita's Locus year-endCasella’s Locus year-endJared Pechaček's The West Passage, Casella's review, and of course Jared's A Meal of Thorns episode on E.R. Eddison’s Mistress of Mistress

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Dan HartlandTitle: Heir to the Empire by Timothy ZahnHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:Gautam Bhatia's The SentenceAlex Pheby's WaterblackCristina Rivera Garza's The Taiga SyndromeKatherine Addison's The Tomb of DragonsElizabeth Sandifer's Hugboxing vs ScabpickingDavid BrinThe Wilhelm ScreamJack London's The Call of the WildBrandon Taylor’s “against casting tape fiction”The idea of “novelization style” as discussed in Garth Marenghi’s DarkplaceI saw your black chanel boots mr skywalkerTimothy Zahn’s Cascade PointDiane Carey's Ghost ShipWinamp skinsMichael P. Kube-McDowell’s Black Fleet Crisis trilogyVonda N. McIntyre's The Crystal StarUna McCormackKevin J. AndersonMichael A. Stackpole’s I, JediDresden CodakKim Stanley Robinson's 2312AndorDr. Who "New Adventures" novelsAhsoka, RebelsAlan Dean Foster's Splinter of the Mind's EyeTales from Mos Eisley Cantina and Tales from Jabba's PalaceStrange Horizons Criticism Special Issue & Tansy Gardam's article on Jackson’s LOTR filmsThe Going Rogue episode on The Star Wars Holiday Special

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Eden KupermintzTitle: The Silmarillion by J.R.R. TolkienHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:anarchySF, heavy blog is heavy, Eden’s work at ARB, the Death // Sentence podcastAlex Pheby’s WaterblackAdrian Tchaikovsky’s House of Open WoundsDarkly Lem’s Transmentation TransienceDeath // Sentence episode on Unknown LanguageThe Dragonlance series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (and others)Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone’s This Is How You Lose The Time WarJeff Noon & Steve Beard’s Gogmagog & LudludaThe Going Rogue podcastTolkien’s The Hobbit & The Lord of the RingsRobert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure IslandBen Berman Ghan’s The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits & Eden's reviewThe Kalevala, The Mabinogion, the Matter of BritainThe Folio SocietyGene Wolfe’s The Book of the New SunOctavia Butler’s KindredUrsula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of DarknessSiegfried & the DragonKate Wagner on Wagner’s (no relation) The RingJared Pechaček’s The West PassageThe By-The-Bywater podcastE.R. Eddison’s Mistress of Mistresses, and our episode on that with Jared PechačekThe Tea With Tolkien podcastJohn Milton’s Paradise LostEden’s Death // Sentence episode on one page of the AkallabêthFallout 3 and Fallout: New VegasM. John Harrison, worldbuilding as the “clomping foot of nerdism”Anthony Burgess’s (and probably Stanley Kubrick’s tbf) A Clockwork OrangeBlind Guardian's Nightfall in Middle-Earth and “The Bard's Song”The Hobbit (1977) Dopesmoker EditionFor a concise overview of some of the conservative/fascist love affair with Tolkien, see Robert T. Tally Jr.’s “Tolkien’s Deplorable Cultus”.Jason Guriel’s Forgotten WorkEden’s Bluesky

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Benjamin RosenbaumTitle: Fire Logic by Laurie J. MarksHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:Ben’s novel, The Unraveling, and latest game, The Ghost & The GolemThe Mohanraj & Rosenbaum Are Humans podcastGennaRose Nethercott’s ThistlefootKelly Link’s The Book of LoveAnn Leckie’s Ancillary Justice & sequelsEvan Dahm's The Last Delivery & Harrowing of HellFlyaway by Kathleen Jennings (who also illustrated the Elemental Logic covers)Myers-Briggs personality testOrson Scott Card’s The Tales of Alvin MakerAvery Alder on queer game mechanicsUrsula K. Le Guin’s “The Day Before the Revolution”George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and FireSmall Beer PressSofia Samatar's A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged HistoriesSeth Dickinson’s The Traitor Baru CormorantA Meal of Thorns 07 – THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT with Amal El-MohtarNelson Mandela wearing the Sprinbok jerseyDavids Graeber & Wengrow’s The Dawn of EverythingLe Guin’s Five Ways to ForgivenessIsaac Asimov’s FoundationJohn W. Campbell & Joseph CampbellMaimonides & SaladinCoffee & the “Europe Sobered Up” theoryIsaac Bashevis Singer’s “Yentl” & adaptations

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Hilary StrangTitle: Aurora by Kim Stanley RobinsonHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:Marooned on Mars, a podcast about the works of KSRUrsula Le Guin’s The DispossessedMargaret Killjoy’s A Country of GhostsKSR’s Mars trilogyFredric Jameson’s Archaeologies of the FutureJohn Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogyWiscon“The Hard Problem” audio project adaptation of a section of Aurora, created with Marina Abramović’s workshop, mixed/composed by Adam Tinkle, with the Arthur C. Clarke Centre for Human Imagination at the University of California San Diego.Much of the web-available multimedia about this project is lost to time and linkrot, unfortunately, but there’s a very nice write-up at this fan-run KSR site.You can still find a YouTube version of the audio here.As mentioned in the show credits, the “Into the Impossible” podcast later developed into something very different, platforming far-right whackjobs, climate deniers, TESCREALists, that kind of thing, along with lots of presumably credible scientists, so: be warned. I’m not clear on how the early “Into the Impossible” podcasts with the Clarke Centre transitioned to the later, longer-running show with Brian Keating; just don’t want to accidentally contribute to any of you going down a brain-worm-inducing YouTube/podcast-algo spiral.Leyna Krow’s Sinkhole, and Other Inexplicable VoidsTom Godwin’s “The Cold Equations”“Wherever you go, there you are.”KSR’s 2312 and New York 2140Sofia Samatar’s The Practice, the Horizon, and the ChainTheodore McComb’s UraniansGene Wolfe’s Book of the Long SunStephen H. Dole’s Habitable Planets for ManTracked it down: the "drop unconscious humans off on a grid to check habitability" thing is from Charlie Stross’s excellent blog.C.J. Cherryh’s Heavy Time"Enough is as good as a feast."Le Guin’s “Mrs. Brown Test” is from “Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown” in The Languages of the NightKSR’s Science in the Capital Trilogy, re-released as Green Earth"Science Fiction is the Realism of Our Times""True Voyage Is Return"The Alien filmsMary Shelley's Frankenstein

Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Jared PechačekTitle: Mistress of Mistresses by E.R. EddisonHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughReferences:Jared’s book, The West PassageBy-the-Bywater, a podcast about TolkienAnya Johanna DeNiro’s OKPsycheCaroline Hagood’s Death And Other Speculative FictionsEddison’s The Worm OuroborosThe InklingsBarbara Remington, artist and illustrator. Hard to find good scans of her works; here’s a page with the Eddison covers.Anna Vaninskaya’s Fantasies of Time and DeathLord DunsanyGriemas SquaresC.S. Lewis’s Perelandra, we did an episode on that!Eddison’s A Fish Dinner in MemisonC.S. Lewis’s Till We Have FacesSapphoJohn Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi & The White DevilChaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman”Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and NothingnessJohn Crowley’s AegyptBaruch SpinozaPre-Socratic philosophers such as HeraclitusFriedrich Nietzsche’s concept of “The Will to Power”Godspeed! You Black Emperor’s “Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven”William Shakespeare’s MacbethHope Mirlees’ Lud-in-the-MistMichael Swanwick’s Stations of the TideJared's Bluesky, Instagram, Tumblr