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Genre spaces are in no way always welcoming. Genre spaces are superficially open but functionally conservative and resistant to change. Trad always stomps on the face of rad. Kudos to Joyce and @strangehorizons.bsky.social for publishing this by @edebell.com strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

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MAD SISTERS OF ESI has a US cover! I'm so delighted @dawbooks.bsky.social kept Upamanyu's award-winning illustration but paired it with bold new lettering for a new format. Coming in hardcover August 2025!

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Really cannot stress how good - and how profoundly depressing - this particular book is at this particular junction in history. Can’t think of anything that even comes close.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Myers-Briggs but good, alternate theories of historical development, coffee alt-history, queer game mechanics, the ideological choices of epic fantasy, and just a little bit on Yentl: @benjaminrosenbaum.com is on to talk about Laurie J. Marks' FIRE LOGIC! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/02/10/a...

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Hugo nominations are open and I have only two requests: 1. Commit to picking 2 non-Tordotcom novellas for your ballot 2. For the love of all that is holy in this world, do not nominate adult/crossovers or middle grade books for the Lodestar - officially categorized YA only!

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

Via an announcement to the Science Fiction Research Association list, feminist hard SF author Joan L. Slonczewski has a new novel coming from Arc Manor in August, Minds in Transit, cover and blurb attached (Also, per their e-mail signature, Slonczewski uses they/them pronouns)

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

This meme but replace Week with Months!!! Preorder this amazing book!! It’s so breathtakingly good.

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So glad this beautiful and strange book--which put me in mind of a space operatic PIRANESI (to be reductive)--is going to get more readers beyond South Asia.

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I could not imagine a more perfect book for my first acquisition. I’ve been obsessed with @quicunquevult.bsky.social forever and I’m SO EXCITED to work together!

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It's taken me a while, but I've finally pulled together my thoughts on some speculative poetry reading in advance of Hugo noms opening, and a list of 11 things I really enjoyed. readerofelse.wordpress.com/2025/02/01/o...

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A bit 11th hour, but: it occurs to us that ARB and A Meal of Thorns are eligible to be nominated for the #HugoAwards! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/31/e...

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Damned good review of a damned good poet. (1/2) lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Installment 2 up now! Read spec poetry!!

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Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.

submitted 41 days ago • 34 comments

Sharing my uncle Aveek's (RIP) essay on TWIN PEAKS, Lynch's (RIP) work, & the intertextual web art weaves, favourite. 'Like love, Twin Peaks meant total immersion in the mysteriousness, & truth, of another person's imaginary universe, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.'

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

It isn't of David Lynch, but Angelo Badalamenti recounting the creation of Laura Palmer's theme alongside him captures so much of Lynch's creativity, his mannerisms, and how he would connect with people around him. Others are sharing favorite anecdotes; this is mine. youtu.be/e-eqgr_gn4k?...

submitted 41 days ago • 6 comments

This is a beautiful tribute.

submitted 41 days ago • 242 comments

RIP, big guy x

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

A writer whose work I greatly enjoy has a new banger out, in which a giant radioactive space monster tries to save humanity from itself, despite humanity’s best efforts to the contrary.

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where does the new york times even find these people

submitted 50 days ago • 742 comments

In the meantime, for my part I recommend books by Sofia Samatar, @yarntheory.bsky.social, @sillysyntax.bsky.social, @aptshadow.bsky.social, @vajra.me and Julia Armfield. I also squint at the horizon and imagine I see ships sailing in: "To what end any of this? Well, we’ll see."

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New ARB feature: our "Notable Criticism" of 2024. We painfully narrowed down a huge list of great reviews, essays, & other writing, looking for work speculative criticism that represents and enhances the field. Here are 10 articles we think you should read: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/05/a...

submitted 52 days ago • 2 comments

Last day of the $2.99 sale! Get any final sunderings in quick! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Our very first year-end wrap-up episode! @casella.bsky.social & @chloroformtea.bsky.social with thoughts on Awards, Conventions, 2024's most interesting spec-fic, and a quick preview of books coming next year. Dangerous for your TBR list! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/12/30/a...

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

Proud to mark my first year contributing to ARB! Seconding EXORDIA, THE WEST PASSAGE, REMEMBER YOU WILL DIE, and THE BOOK OF LOVE as standout titles this past year. I'm seeing THE MOURNING COAT mentioned all over the place, so that'll be first up as I track down the titles I haven't read yet.

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Happy new year from the ARB! We asked our contributors for their most interesting reads of 2024; here's 17 you should have on your radar: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/01/01/a...

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"Reading Deep Dream, I was continually reminded of Ursula K. Le Guin’s assertion that story is not defined by conflict, but change: in each story in the collection, some essential shift is catalyzed by art." https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/12/11/new-tools-to-work-with-review-of-deep-dream/

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New Tools to Work With: @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social reviews DEEP DREAM, edited by Indrapramit Das (@mitpress.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/12/11/n...

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This book is amazing, and I will be making everyone I know read it!!!

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Did you ever watch The Bachelor and think “what if this was in space, and also gay, and also a political thriller?” Then do I have the book for you!!!

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This is happening. Literary agents and unagented writers from all genres, details will be posted next week. Writers — Polish those manuscripts and be ready to pitch on January 27th.

submitted 78 days ago • 20 comments

YEAHHHH

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My Real Children, my book about a woman with dementia who remembers two different versions of her life in two different histories, neither of them ours, is $2.99 as an ebook today www.amazon.com/My-Real-Chil... and here are the French, Italian, and UK covers

submitted 78 days ago • 2 comments

Indie bookselling tends to be romanticized as ‘cause work’ which is used to argue that booksellers should tolerate grossly low pay because it’s just so cool and fun to sell books! To be this wealthy and not invest in the workers who make that possible is actually not cool or fun.

submitted 80 days ago • 9 comments

FWIW: I genuinely & firmly believe that Palestine is one of very few instances where Posting About It actually makes a material difference (because of Palestine Exception bullshit, ironclad media silencing of Palestinian voices, & the COST of speaking up), so if you haven't? Maybe consider it?

submitted 83 days ago • 10 comments

always on repeat in the back of my mind

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