Just an update that we are slowly but surely inching our way to 50% funded! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/

Scriptures in the Kindest Sense: @inkstainedwreck.ca reviews Amal El-Mohtar's collection SEASONS OF GLASS & IRON (@tordotcompub.bsky.social)

things I am very much looking forward to listening to INCLUDE

what “renaissance” means here is it is now YOUR job to start a publication. i don’t make the rules electricliterature.com/the-renaissa...

Metallic Realms, Death of the Author, and Mise En Abyme: @rymkechacha.bsky.social reads some recent metafictional SF novels together to think about how works-within-works...work!

Just returned from @iafa.bsky.social's annual conference, ICFA. Such a great conference! For anyone who missed because of the location, the IAFA board heard your concerns and year 2028 is going to be in Warsaw, Poland! Also, I will post the CFP for VICFA, our virtual conference, when it is ready.

New podcast! Author Max Gladstone joins to discuss a non-SFF book with a deep influence across genres: Raymond Chandler's THE BIG SLEEP! Look for "A Meal of Thorns" wherever you get your podcasts:

What a lovely, thoughtful review ♡

Well would you like at that! My investigation into the origins, themes, foundations, and modes of what I call the "weird space opera" is live on ARB! I look at The Centauri Device (duh) and Web of Angels (not so duh) to find the working principles of this beloved and odd sub-genre!

Ancillary has done some of the best work in literary criticism in recent years and is well worth supporting.

god this rules so hard (for context, I was making $30k a year as an editorial assistant at Harper in 2010)

Angels & Devices: @tallesteden.bsky.social sketches "A Genealogy of the Weird Space Opera", works that bridge and subvert some of science fiction's most popular modes.

I liked The Scar a heap; it was much more for me than the authors' Vita Nostra, which turned out more popular in the English translation.

Do you like: - Thoughtful articles and podcasts about books? - Discovering SFFF gems that are so far from your radar you could be in different dimensions? - Websites with acronyms you're not entirely sure how to pronounce? Support @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org www.kickstarter.com/projects/anc...

Hey! There's a Journey Planet issue coming up dedicated to Los Angeles! You got until the end of March to send us writing, art, other!!!!! [email protected]

In "Misplaced in Translation", @coimeas.bsky.social digs into intriguing translated works of SFF that seem like they should have found a wider audience. This month, Nat dives into masculinity & disability in Sergey & Marina Dyachenko's THE SCAR (@torbooks.bsky.social, tr. Elinor Huntington)!

ARB fundraiser, coming soon! We'd love your support in taking the magazine to the next level, and just spreading the word helps a ton!

ARB fundraiser, coming soon! We'd love your support in taking the magazine to the next level, and just spreading the word helps a ton!

For purely selfish reasons everyone tell me what forthcoming collections of this sort you’re looking forward to so I can try and review them

A heads up for those interested in wrestling with the complicated legacies of earlier science fiction: We're republishing Farah Mendlesohn's important study of Heinlein at @leverpress.bsky.social early next year!

Big things happening at ARB...

Who are the small presses publishing cool weird/experimental/horror/speculative stuff? In the vein of Undertow, Grimscribe, Apocalypse Party, Ghoulish, Weirdpunk, CLASH, Word Horde …

*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

To be even more transparent, I think most of the best writing on sf and fantasy doesn't come from academics, but from critics writing for online magazines/fanzines (i.e. the people who could be nominated for "best fan writer" awards).

We still have some cool titles unclaimed for June—send us a pitch if you're interested in reviewing!

One more day if you are thinking about submitting an abstract for "World Literature and the Global South: Frictions and New Horizons"!👇

Don't forget to nominate; in many ways it has a bigger impact than the final vote! We'd love if you considered ARB (fanzine) & A Meal of Thorns (fancast), and many of our contributors are eligible in various categories:

Kicking the Darkness Till it Bleeds Daylight: @chandraclarke.bsky.social reviews Joe P.L. Davidson's SAVING UTOPIA (@mitpress.bsky.social)

📣 Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research invites authors to submit papers for issue 2/2026. 📣 Deadline: 30.06.2026 Submissions should be made through the online portal: fafnir.journal.fi/about/submis...

Site's been down for a couple of days due to a maintenance snafu but it's back up and we're about 50% of the way to the awards funding goal! ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/support/

Earth and Hearth: in this month's Small Press Dispatch, @chloroformtea.bsky.social looks at the juxtaposition of form and theme in two quite juxtaposed novellas—Ruthanna Emrys's THE SHELTERING FLAME and Andrew Knighton's WALKING A WOUNDED LAND (@wtpress.bsky.social)

Friends on the internet who talk about books: what do you call yourself? Reviewer, critic, something else? Because every time I think I’ve figured out how people are using them differently, someone says something that makes it clear I haven’t.

We still have slots open for the SLF's 2026 Writing SFF Workshop. Visit speclit.org to learn more if you're interested!

Podcast time! Alexander Dickow joins to discuss Serge Brussolo's THE DEEP SEA DIVER'S SYNDROME (@melvillehouse.bsky.social, translated by Edward Gauvin), a French science fiction novel about the pressures and anxieties of artistic creation. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

Breaking the World, Justin Mann's brilliant new book on @dukepress.bsky.social, is out! Essential reading for anyone interested in black feminist world-making and speculative fiction. It's the third book on our Black Feminism on the Edge series. @samanthapinto.bsky.social and I are ELATED!

Oh hey, I'm in here alongside some very good company!

so alternative option: listening to smart people talk about it! I like this podcast a lot and I like how discussions and reviews let me experience a book again in a different way (I really wish I still had a real-life book club, mine faded away quietly during 2020)

This weekend, @mollytempleton.com encourages rewatching Buffy, reading about reading, and perchance allowing warmer weather and later sunsets warm your heart:

New Intergalactic Mixtape!

Progress Report #1 for the upcoming #Mythcon54 is now up at www.mythsoc.org/assets/mythc... It's shaping up to be a great event! We hope to see you there in person or virtually. Also reminder that the CFP is still open! For CFP details, go to www.mythcon.org

A bumper load of essays and reviews: our March link round-up is live!

In this first of two essays, Amritesh Mukherjee gives an overview of Indian feminist SF - starting in 1905, with _Sultana's Dream_, then jumping to the 1980s, and following several themes over the next three decades... Read now! It's free ! www.speculativeinsight.com

Pitch your troubled problematic reads to @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org is what I'm saying.

Why Can't We Be Friends? @robertwelbourn.bsky.social reviews the re-release of Hailey Piper's NO GODS FOR DROWNING (@badhandbooks.bsky.social)

Well this is gorgeous! Was not expecting anything this beautiful just for the @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org being an @theignyteawards.bsky.social finalist:

Calls for Reviews & Essays: June 2026

Call for book review essays - book list c21.openlibhums.org/news/923/

Grateful to see my smol essay on the self and identity, the politics of belonging, is a BSFA Awards finalist. 🥹 Congratulations to all finalists! @strangehorizons.bsky.social , @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Hey all, if you are the kind of person who goes to or pays attention to or even, yes, complains about Worldcon (because you care about the state of speculative fiction & its communities), I *implore you* to take ten minutes and submit a program item or two before the deadline. Thread! 1/13

🚨🚨Submissions call. 🚨🚨 Strange Horizons invites non-fiction submissions for our March 30 special issue on “Fungi in SFF.” Please send in your mycelial pitches to [email protected]. For word-count, formats, and remuneration: strangehorizons.com/submit/non-f...