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Guest: Amal El-MohtarTitle: The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth DickinsonMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartáčhari, translated by John BroughReferences:
Rakesfall by Vajra ChandrasekeraIn Universes by Emmet NorthThe Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia SamatarAmalâs review of those three novelsThe Silmarillion by J.R.R. TolkienThe Grace of Kings by Ken LiuThe Craft Sequence by Max GladstoneStar WarsWicked problemsA Memory Called Empire by Arkady MartineThe Goblin Emperor by Katherine AddisonThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinBabel, or the Necessity of Violence by R.F. KuangThe Battle of Algiers directed by Gillo PontecorvoTony Gilroyâs Star Wars series AndorThe Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra ChandrasekeraThe sequels to Traitor Baru, The Monster Baru Cormorant & The Tyrant Baru CormorantCommedia dellâarteLee Mandelo's writing on Eve Sedwgick, paranoid & reparative readingKameron Hurley & Arkady MartineExordia by Seth DickinsonThe Unaccountability Machine by Dan DaviesAmal's next book, The River Has RootsThe ballad of The Two Sisters/The Bonny SwansLud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees -
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Host: Jake Casella BrookinsGuest: Dan HartlandTitle: The Passion by Jeanette WintersonMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartáčhari, translated by John BroughReferences:
This blog has a round-up of articles and commentary on the Gaiman allegations.Danâs Snap! Criticism series at AncillaryHandheld PressVonda McIntyâre The Exile Waiting & DreamsnakeThe 2024 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and FantasyAnnie Luong on Margaret Atwoodâs The Heart Goes LastNeal Stephensonâs Cryptonomicon and the Baroque CycleLaura van den Bergâs State of Paradise & Casellaâs reviewDon DeLilloâs White NoiseWintersonâs Written on the Body, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal, and FrankissteinBernard Cornwellâs Sharpe novelsWilliam Shakespeareâs As You Like It and The Winterâs TaleChina MiĂ©villeâs The City & The City (though I donât think we actually name it)Salman Rushdie, Martin AmisJulian Barnesâ A History of the World in 10Âœ ChaptersThe 1980s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction edited by Emily Horton, Philip Tew, and Leigh WilsonNeil Gaiman, Jeff Noon, Steph SwainstonâThe Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockâ by T.S. EliotFrank Herbertâs DuneMary Shelleyâs FrankensteinWendy Roy on Cherie DimalineWilliam Gibsonâs Pattern Recognition and othersDanâs piece in LARB on Christopher Priest and his last novel, Airside -
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Guest: A.V. MarracciniTitle: The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin AitkenMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartáčhari, translated by John BroughReferences:
Vladimir Nabokovâs Ada, or ArdorAnton Hurâs Toward Eternity and Casellaâs reviewA.V.âs forthcoming book, These New FragilitiesNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyahâs Chain Gang All-StarsPresses discussed:Lolli EditionsNew DirectionsFSG PressFitzarraldoSeven StoriesTorInside the CastleKristina Carlsonâs Eunuch translated from the Finnish by Mikko AlapuroPsychedlic Ray Bradbury coversJenny Hvalâs novels, such as Paradise RotSamuel R. DelanyVajra Chandrasekeraâs The Saint of Bright DoorsGretchen Felker-Martin Manhunt and CuckooJohn TrefryOlga Ravn's My WorkLea Guldditte Hestelund's sculptureInterview with Ravn about Hestelund Le Guin's Carrier Bag theory of fictionArthur C. Clarke/Stanley Kubrickâs 2001Stanislaw Lemâs FiascoAngĂ©lica GorodischerKim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the FuturePhilip K. Dickâs Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? & Ridley Scottâs BladerunnerBattlestar GalacticaUrsula K. Le Guin's The Left Hand of DarknessJorge Luis Borges & Italo CalvinoE. Catherine Tobler's The Necessity of StarsStanislaw Lem's SolarisRavn's Twitter @OlgaRavnAV on Twitter @saintsoftness -
Taylor Driggers joins us to talk about the second volume in C.S. Lewis's SPACE TRILOGY. A richly-described and philosophical science fiction story, PERELANDRA has a lot that's interesting and a lot that's pretty weird when you think about it.
A Meal of Thorns is a podcast from the Ancillary Review of Books.
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Guest: Taylor Driggers Title: Perelandra by C.S. Lewis Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia Artwork by Rob Patterson Opening poem by Bhartáčhari, translated by John BroughReferences:
Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology by Taylor Driggers The Ursula Le Guin Archives Laurie Marksâ Elemental Logic novel series Philophantast conference The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman (and our episode on it) The Two Doctors GĂłrski by Isaac Fellman The other two novels in the Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength Lewisâs The Chronicles of Narnia The Inklings (wiki link) Lewisâs A Grief Observed Lewisâs final novel Till We Have Faces Ursula Le Guinâs review of Lewisâs The Dark Tower Lewisâs The Great Divorce, Pilgrimâs Regress, and The Screwtape Letters Stephen Metcalf, âLanguage and Self-Consciousness: The Making and Breaking of C.S. Lewisâ Personaeâ in Word and Story in C. S. Lewis: Language and Narrative in Theory and Practice ed. Peter J. Schakel & Charles A. Huttar Lewisâs debate with Elizabeth Anscombe J.R.R. Tolkienâs The Lord of the Rings Ridley Scottâs Alien âSehnsuchtâ, the concept of inconsolable longing The Transformers franchise Aamer Rahman on defeating Nazis Satan (Miltonâs version) Le Guinâs The Left Hand of Darkness and specifically the religion/philosophy of the Handdara Sofia Samatarâs The Practice, The Horizon, and the Chain Casellaâs essay on (not) defending science fiction against criticisms of complicity Taylorâs seminar for his work with the Le Guin Fellowship on historicizing queerness in fantasy and âqueer hiddenness in the archiveâ, available online this fall/winter. Greg Eganâs âOracleâ, available on his site (and in the collections Oceanic and The Best of Greg Egan)ContactRSS feed | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | +lots of other platforms (let us know if itâs not on your favorite)
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Ancillary Review editors Jake Casella Brookins and Misha Grifka Wander discuss Susanna Clarke's PIRANESI: epistolary realism and the novel, numinous personhood, and glimpses of utopia in rejecting capitalist expectations.
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A Meal of Thorns is a podcast from the Ancillary Review of Books.
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Guest: Misha Grifka Wander
Title: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
Artwork by Rob Patterson
Opening poem by Bhartáčhari, translated by John Brough
References:
Mishaâs interviews with Sofia Samatar and Vajra ChandrasekeraExordia by Seth DickinsonArrival (Villeneuveâs adaptation of Ted Chiangâs âStory of Your Lifeâ)Weird Black Girls by Elwin CotmanDisorientation by Elaine Hsieh ChouStarship Troopers (Paul Verhoevenâs film adaptation)The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia SamatarJonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna ClarkeThe Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisThrough the Looking Glass & Aliceâs Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollChristopher Nolanâs MementoPhilosopherâs including John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and John RawlsAugustineâs ConfessionsHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiâThe Library of Babelâ by Jorge Luis BorgesAnathem by Neal StephensonA Stranger in Olondria by Sofia SamatarThe Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. WellsDavid Lynchâs Twin PeaksNic Pizzolattoâs True DetectiveContact
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Host Jake Casella Brookins talks to critic Roseanna Pendlebury about Isaac Fellman's DEAD COLLECTIONS (a novel about a trans vampire archivist) and how it addresses grief, portrayals of bodies and identities over time, fanfic and low-budget television, and the place of more experimental fiction in genre publishing.
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You can support the podcast (and the Ancillary Review of Books) by joining our Patreon. For $5 and up, you get access to ARBâs exclusive monthly newsletter, our Discord community, and more to come.Interested in purchasing a book we mentioned on the show? Check the show notes for Bookshop links; we get a cut if you buy them through our Bookshop!It seems small, but it really does help: like and share our posts! Leave a comment or review wherever you find us. The internetâs kind of broken, but that kind of thing really does help people hear about the work weâre doing. -
Host Jake Casella Brookins talks to Dan Hartland, critic and reviewer, about China Miéville's novel THE SCAR, the genre of the New Weird, and many related works and ideas.
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Guest: Dan HartlandTitle: The Scar by China MiĂ©villeMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartáčhari, translated by John BroughLinks & works referenced:
Strange Horizons reviewsDanâs Snap! Criticism seriesCahokia Jazz by Francis SpuffordDanâs review of Cahokia Jazz at Strange HorizonsHim by Geoff RymanThe Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia SamatarCasellaâs review of PHC at the Chicago Review of BooksThe West Passage by Jared PechaÄekPerdido Street Station and Iron Council by China MiĂ©villeEmbassytown and The City and the City by China MiĂ©villePirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David GraeberâEpic Poohâ by Michael Moorcock (pdf)âThe Open Boatâ by Stephen Crane (pdf)The Year of Our War by Steph SwainstonJustina RobsonThe Wall by Gautam BhatiaThe Etched City by K.J. BishopâInfernal Transmutation: Remembering K.J. Bishopâs The Etched Cityâ by J.R. Bolt @ TypebarRobert Jordanâs Wheel of Time seriesTerry Brooksâ Shannara seriesUrsula Le Guinâs fantasyKelly LinkCarmen Maria MachadoGraham Harmanâs idea of overminingCormac McCarthyThis Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max GladstoneCasellaâs bit about baseline genre familiarity in his ARB essay on TIHYLTTW.The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra ChandrasekeraChristopher PriestContact
RSS feed | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | +lots of other platforms (let us know if itâs not on your favorite)You can follow A Meal of Thorns on Twitter and Bluesky.Email us at [email protected].Support the Show!
You can support the podcast (and the Ancillary Review of Books) by joining our Patreon. For $5 and up, you get access to ARBâs exclusive monthly newsletter, our Discord community, and more to come.Interested in purchasing a book we mentioned on the show? Check the show notes for Bookshop links; we get a cut if you buy them through our Bookshop!It seems small, but it really does help: like and share our posts! Leave a comment or review wherever you find us. The internetâs kind of broken, but that kind of thing really does help people hear about the work weâre doing.