What’s For Dinner Tomorrow? Annette Koh reviews DEVOURING TOMORROW: FICTION FROM THE FUTURE OF FOOD, edited by A.G. Pasquella and Jeff Dupuis (Rare Machines/ @dundurnpress.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/09/17/w...

Books from African authors and authors of African descent to look forward to in 2025 (Updated) hararereview.wordpress.com/2025/01/04/b...

Realizing Better Futures Now: @jennahanchey.bsky.social reviews Joseph M. Pierce's SPECULATIVE RELATIONS: INDIGENOUS WORLDBUILDING AND REPAIR (@dukepress.bsky.social)

🧵My Taínofuturism novella, SORDIDEZ @stelliform.press, won the Indie Ink Award for "Writing the Future We Need: Latinx/Latine Representation by a Latinx/Latine author". What a wonderful way to kick off #HispanicHeritageMonth ! What an important institution for recognizing indie works. Gracias! 1/

Birds and War: @pflugu.bsky.social reviews MOONS SONGS: THE COLLECTED STORIES OF CAROL EMSHWILLER, edited by Matthew Cheney (@thirdmanbooks.bsky.social)

I’ve got September’s monthly column up at ARB, this time talking about Audition for the Fox, the shape of stories, gods in fantasy and how those fit together.

Our third panel of BFS Online: Something Monstrous takes place Saturday 4th October 2025, 4pm to 5pm (BST). Dark Fantasy v Horror Ticket: tinyurl.com/bfsmonster #BritishFantasySociety #FantasyBooks #HorrorBooks #SFFBooks #AuthorTalk #WritingCommunity #DarkFantasy #BookSky

I reviewed The Women of Wild Cove, a novel about a matriarchal society with no biological family, for ARB 👇

To Make a Better World: Paul Kincaid reviews Stéphanie Roza’s UTOPIA (@versobooks.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/09/09/t...

A Meal of Thorns, ep. 32: Critic (and ARB editor) @megapolisomancy.bsky.social joins to discuss Jeff VanderMeer's AUTHORITY (2014), the second entry in the Southern Reach series (@fsgbooks.bsky.social). Much discussion of genre, the weird, whether or not this is eco-fiction, and more:

the volume of “what’s happening to criticism” stories makes me think people actually do want criticism, thank you

I'm happy to announce that I'm the new associate editor of the sf section at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. So I'm open to good review/essay pitches that fit LARB's audience. I've been quietly doing this for a few weeks and already commissioned some things I'm excited for you to read!

Once Upon a Time, Functionally: for the latest Small Press Dispatch, @chloroformtea.bsky.social looks at faith & folklore in Martin Cahill's AUDITION FOR THE FOX (@tachyonpub.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/09/05/s...

New review by yours truly! This time around I got the fascinating opportunity to read three works by J.-H. Rosny aîné, a somewhat forgotten master of proto science fiction!

Gender, Power, and Family Abolition: @whiterxbbit.bsky.social reviews J. Kelland Perry’s THE WOMEN OF WILD COVE (Running Wild Press) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/09/03/g...

Just in time for lots of fall sales and later holidays, my list of Fall 2025 recommendations of 100+ new titles from dozens of university presses and related academic publishers, ranging widely across the humanities with specialties in American studies, literary/media studies, and sff studies.

December is usually a light publishing month, and ARB is going to be following a lighter end-of-year schedule this year while we do some behind-the-scenes cleaning & updating. That said, some cool books are still on their way; pitch us! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/09/02/c...

Ouroboros territory, I know, but I’m sketching out a project and the heart wants what it wants: anybody have any favorite pieces ABOUT criticism of speculative fiction?

Very cool list, & big congrats to ARB contributors @alexyquest.bsky.social & @inkstainedwreck.ca!

The World Without Context: @willekysff.bsky.social reviews Rand Paulsen's ASCENDING SPECIES (Brown Books) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/09/01/t...

Let’s hear it for Ideas on Fire author Joseph M. Pierce and his new book Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair! ⭐️The book is out now from @dukepress.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/speculative-... #IoFAuthors

Wow! Signal is always the shit but the topmost link here, from Matthew Cheney, is THEE shit. reading & nodding vigorously, screencapping too many instances for my most Decadent friend, the ideal reading experience.

We had editors on the road for Worldcon and all kinds of other end-of-summer activities, and yet! Some great reviews and columns in August, and still managed to pull together this month's link round-up: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/29/w...

Matter Over Mind: @feidong.bsky.social reviews R.F. Kuang's KATABASIS, out this week from @harpervoyagerus.bsky.social! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/28/m...

So overjoyed to learn that we have won a Hugo award this year! We are so grateful to everyone who helped make this happen & everyone who continues to visit the site,follow along with us on social media and keep BNP in mind as a place of creatives to keep in high regard! 1/2

Column time! This one was such a good, vivid read, the sort of book that leaves you with scenes and quiet moments of small, human interaction lingering in the memory. Extremely worth the time of both reading and thinking about.

Always extremely happy to see discussion of this earlier period of SF (the “flight from urban culture”?), but especially nice to see J.-H. Rosny aîné get some eyeballs. For anyone interested in the prehistoric fiction side of his output, Nicholas Ruddick’s book is still unmatched:

@willmcmahon36.bsky.social reviews Natalia García Freire’s A Carnival of Atrocities (tr. Victor Meadowcroft) at @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org : ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/18/t... Spanish (Ecuador) #SFinTranslation

Seven years ago I wrote at @reactorsff.bsky.social (not yet called reactor) about why I do this and why I chose @globalvoices.org. Today, supporting independent, international news is even more important. reactormag.com/malka-older-...

Here's to the Freaks & Perverts: @alexyquest.bsky.social reviews Charlie Jane Anders' LESSONS IN MAGIC AND DISASTER, out now from @torbooks.bsky.social! ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/26/h...

I spent some time studying French spec fic of around this era and I will attest: J-H Rosny aîné is a worthwhile and foundational read (also George Slusser once wrote kind things about a very full conference paper I wrote about Maurice Renard’s Le Péril bleu)

Lots of poetry, a fair bit of science, and the expected amount of SF culture musings on A Meal of Thorns' episode on the Seattle #Worldcon:

2025 Nommo Awards Finalists 🎉 www.africansfs.com/nommo-awards...

This looks great! Saturday 4th October 2025, 10am to 6:30pm BST britishfantasysociety.org/events-calen... Via @britfantasysoc.bsky.social

It's not every day I see Antonio Gramsci (Italian political philosopher, commentator on the shifting world order, political prisoner of the Mussolini regime) name-dropped in a piece of literary analysis, and this is a good name-drop.

We'd like to shout out Seattle's Clean Air Collective and mask bloc for providing us with free masks and air filters during ConCurrent. We could not have run the event without that help, and it was given to us for free. For FREE! What an amazing public service. Thank you so much.

Highlights from @seattlein2025.org !! 🧵I was so busy at #WorldCon I didn’t actually take a ton of pics but here are some of my favorite things I did. Starting out with my academic talk! So many people showed up to hear me talk about robots!!!

I have not expected literally anything that's happened in Leonora Carrington's 'The Hearing Trumpet' (although I have been delighted by much of it) but I should have anticipated this from a book blurbed by both Buñuel and Bjork

I will save the spiel about the importance of criticism to the vitality of the art form and society itself, and just say: We will, ultimately, have the world we pay to have, so if the writing means something to you, find a way to support it

The Transmutation of Death into Light: @willmcmahon36.bsky.social reviews Natalia García Freire’s A CARNIVAL OF ATROCITIES (@worldedbooks.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/18/t...

🚨Huge Congratulations to Jordan S. Carroll 🎉@jordanscarroll.bsky.social on winning the #HugoAward for Best Related Work with Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right! We’re honored to have you on our journal’s advisory board. ✨🚀

2025 Aurora Award Winners We are pleased to announce (a little late) the winners of the 2025 Aurora Awards for excellence by Canadians in the fields of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. We want to congratulate all of this year’s nominees.

Took second place by just 21 votes. At least we lost to some really great people whose work we highly respect.

🚨SPECIAL ISSUE alert!🚨 SINNERS, SAINTS, AND HAINTS will open from August 20th to August 31st, for *reprints only!* Guest editors: @edenroyce.bsky.social and Shakeema Smalls. The movie Sinners elevated a genre Black creators have anchored for decades, and we want to show those stories some love!

Hey, I wrote this! I have really enjoyed Gareth Brown's books (both this one and The Book of Doors) and his exploration of collecting and magical objects.

Good morning #Worldcon, I say to you, from the depths of an east coast circadian rhythm! I'm not on any panels today, but I'll be trying to snag a few quick interviews for A Meal of Thorns, and handing out badge ribbons for translatedhugo.org!

The Power and Price of Collecting: @klaxoncomms.com reviews Gareth Brown's THE SOCIETY OF UNKNOWABLE OBJECTS (@wmmorrowbooks.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/08/15/t...

Just a day and change left to vote for the Ignytes! It's a great list and open to all—don't forget!

I promised you all further reflections on doing genre history. You can’t say I didn’t! So, here it is. On Roberts and Pheby, and on fantasy and knowledge. The latest Snap! Criticism at @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org.