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New View on an Old Master: Eden Kupermintz reviews Three Science Fiction Novellas by J.-H. Rosny aîné, translated by Danièle Chatelain & George Slusser (Wesleyan University Press)
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ancillary-review-of-books · 10 days ago
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The Marvelous in the Mundane: for the latest "Small Press Dispatch", Roseanna Pendlebury looks at both magic and realism in Hwang Jungeun's ONE HUNDRED SHADOWS, translated by Jung Yewon (Tilted Axis/Erewhon)
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ancillary-review-of-books · 12 days ago
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Automatic Emotions: Misha Grifka Wander reviews Annalee Newitz's AUTOMATIC NOODLE (Tordotcom)
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ancillary-review-of-books · 16 days ago
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If you're interested in reviewing for ARB, or just interested in seeing what books we have our eyes on: our calls for reviews for November is live! As always, we're open to other titles, and VERY interested in your ideas for essays & guides:
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ancillary-review-of-books · 17 days ago
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ACAB Includes Lighthouse Keepers: Dee Holloway reviews J.R. Dawson's THE LIGHTHOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (Tor Books)
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ancillary-review-of-books · 19 days ago
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In a special Convention-Reporting episode of A Meal of Thorns, Casella interviews one of the chairs of Readecon, shares some highlights and excerpts from the con, and gets a tour (and some romance recs) at Lovestruck Books in Cambridge:
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ancillary-review-of-books · 23 days ago
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Last Friday of the month, and that means: the link round-up is upon us! Some great interviews, essays, and reviews on spec fic & more:
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ancillary-review-of-books · 24 days ago
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Synchronicity as Dread: Sam Reader reviews Michael Cisco’s BLACK BRANE (CLASH)
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ancillary-review-of-books · 25 days ago
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Last day to vote for this year's #HugoAwards! ARB is up for Fanzine, and A Meal of Thorns is up for fancast, and friends of ARB & AMOT have cool work in a lot of categories: https://seattlein2025.org/wsfs/hugo-awards/how-to-vote/
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ancillary-review-of-books · 1 month ago
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Everything Old Is Strange Again, and Our Parents are Even Stranger: Ben Berman Ghan reviews OTHER WORLDS by André Alexis (FSG Originals)
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ancillary-review-of-books · 1 month ago
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All That You Touch, You Change: Helena Ramsaroop reflects on three recent studies of Octavia Butler's life and work (Angel City Press, University of South Carolina Press, & Oxford University Press)
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ancillary-review-of-books · 2 months ago
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For the latest Small Press Dispatch, Roseanna Pendlebury invites us to listen to the "Voice of the Hills": character and styling in Jordan Kurella's THE DEATH OF MOUNTAINS (Lethe Press)
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ancillary-review-of-books · 2 months ago
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Calls for Reviews & Essays: October 2025
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ancillary-review-of-books · 2 months ago
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For the latest episode of A Meal of Thorns, Jake Casella Brookins talks to Arkady Martine about the craft and themes of C.J. Cherryh's 40,000 IN GEHENNA: a 1983 science fiction novel about alien contact, gender & sociology, human cloning, and more.
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ancillary-review-of-books · 2 months ago
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Wow! Signal: June 2025
Jake Casella Brookins The Ancillary Review of Books was founded to address the radical possibilities of criticism, particularly in the context of the radical possibilities of speculative fiction. Named after the 1977 discovery in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, our Wow! Signal column collects examples of diverse critical voices from around the web. This isn’t intended to be a…
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ancillary-review-of-books · 2 months ago
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Stalin in a Flower Crown: Alex Kingsley reviews Eliot Borenstein’s UNSTUCK IN TIME: ON THE POST-SOVIET UNCANNY (Cornell University Press)
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ancillary-review-of-books · 2 months ago
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So Many Voices, Singing: Jeremy Brett reviews THE BLACK FANTASTIC, edited by andré m. carrington (Library of America)
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