Our latest link round-up is live: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/10/01/w...
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. N…
Major update to the list of labour unions in SFF. Mid-century SFF didn't exactly *ignore* labour unions. But most of it depicted worker solidarity with a cynical or negative light. (Thanks to SFF blogger Joachim Boaz for all his help and suggestions.) hugoclub.blogspot.com/2018/12/orga...
A Gloomy Palace of Black Ashlar Marble, Shrouded in Awe and Horror: Daniel A. Rabuzzi reviews NORDIC TERRORS by Robert W. Rix, out this week from Anthem Press ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/09/30/p...
Daniel A. Rabuzzi Under Review:Nordic Terrors: Scandinavian Superstition in British Gothic Literature. Robert W. Rix. Anthem Press, October 2024. Robert W. Rix’s Nordic Terrors: Scandinavian Supers…
Good coffees and books acquired in Toronto yesterday; caught these fine @stelliform.press@reckoningmag.bsky.social@meakoopa.bsky.social@augurmag.bsky.social)'s talk on Biblical myth & fiction, potent stuff.
Reading Ancillary Review's "Science Fiction vs. Left Melancholy" essays and this line jumped out at me: "The kind of originality most admired within speculative fiction fandoms is often not the depiction of a deeply alien world, but rather the elegant twist on a familiar theme."
“Media that can look at empire as a machine not as a dragon is something that is grasping the heart of the matter much more deeply”. @amalelmohtar.com precisely articulating a demand for fiction I never before had the correct words for. Meal of Thorns is essential
More podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Amal El-MohtarTitle: The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth…
Cruel optimism, retrofuturism, the Kendrick/Drake feud and the morass of the megatext: in the second installment of a 3-part series, @jolwalton.bsky.socialancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/09/26/s...
Jo Lindsay Walton “What happens to a dream deferred?”— Langston Hughes Left Melancholy in Science Fiction The first essay in this series revisited Wendy Brown’s concept of left melancholy, a wallowing...
Check out the latest episode of "A Meal of Thorns", our critical bookclub: ARB editor @casella.bsky.social@amalelmohtar.com about Seth Dickinson's novel THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT!
Anti-imperialism, paranoid readings, feral online behavior over fictional lesbians, and more: Episode 07, discussing Seth Dickinson's THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT with @amalelmohtar.com, is live! Find it here, or (hopefully) wherever you get your podcasts: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/09/23/a...
More podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Amal El-MohtarTitle: The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Di...
I’d love for us to run an encomium/overview of Jameson’s work on sf at @ancillaryreview.bsky.social, if anybody out there is interested and knowledgeable
This must be my day to make tangential points about fascinating, well-written articles that I largely agree with. Here's my initial tangential thought about this one: solarpunk seems like a way out of left melancholy except that what I've seen always seems sparse and/or encapsulated.
In the first installment of a 3-part essay, "Science Fiction vs. Left Melancholy", @jolwalton.bsky.social starts us off by explaining what "left melancholy" is, and wondering if the joy of speculative fiction might be a way out: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/09/18/s...
Jo Lindsay Walton What happens when hope curdles?—Hannah Proctor Left Melancholy Why aren’t things better? Why are so many struggling to survive under conditions of war or slavery or wage slavery? Why...