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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 04/02/2026

new "favorite" genre of slop-spam is where they awkwardly compliment/recap one of our writers' articles and then tie it to a wildly unrelated product or service

I really enjoyed your thoughtful review of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Service Model — you did a great job articulating both the strengths and the places where the world‑building and narrative mechanics challenged you. It’s always fascinating to see how speculative fiction can make us rethink systems, agency, and the way everything works in a story. Reading this even reminded me how patterns and intentional structuring matter in all sorts of fields — from crafting compelling worlds in literature to the detailed coordination required in technical work like marine insulation companies & marine pipe insulation, where planning and sequence play a key role in performance and results. Thanks for sharing such a thorough and engaging review!

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 23/07/2025

Synchronicity as Dread: @strangelibrary.com reviews Michael Cisco’s BLACK BRANE (@clashbooks.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/07/23/s...

Cover image for "Synchronicity as Dread", with an image of the book BLACK BRANE by MIchael Cisco, which has a black and white spiraly image with yellow and red text.

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 22/04/2024

A Tale of Abuse, Fascism, and Rebellion: @whiterxbbit.bsky.social reviews Samantha Mills' THE WINGS UPON HER BACK, out this week from @tachyonpub.bsky.social ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/04/22/a...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 21/04/2024

"Reading its pages will leave you feeling vindicated in your sneaking suspicion that more technology doesn’t actually help." From the archives: Madi Simcock-Brown reviews BREAKING THINGS AT WORK by Gavin Mueller (@versobooks.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2021/09/22/s...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 19/04/2024

Erasing Dualities: @chloroformtea.bsky.social reviews Sofia Samatar's THE PRACTICE, THE HORIZON, AND THE CHAIN, out now from @tordotcom.bsky.social ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/04/19/e...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 15/04/2024

Oh? Then I Have Questions: @mariakalberto.bsky.social reviews THIS IS NOT A SCIENCE FICTION TEXTBOOK, edited by Mark Bould & Steven Shaviro (Goldsmiths Press) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/04/15/o...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 12/04/2024

The Financial Ghost, Eternal: @hpbookcraft.bsky.social reviews Amy Bride’s FINANCIAL GOTHIC (University of Wales Press) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/04/12/t...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 05/04/2024

Entangled in Meaning: Bruce J. Krajewski reviews THE BOOK CENSOR'S LIBRARY (Restless Books) by Bothayna Al-Essa, translated by Sawad Hussain & Ranya Abdelrahman ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/04/05/e...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 03/04/2024

The Morality of Nature: @dlewis.bsky.social reviews THE WOODS ALL BLACK by Lee Mandelo (@tordotcom.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/04/03/t...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 01/04/2024

Calls for Reviews & Essays: July 2024 ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/04/01/c...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 26/03/2024

Toward a Substantive Vision of Time: Gareth A. Reeves reviews Ben H. Winter's ambitious new thriller, BIG TIME (Mulholland Books) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/03/26/t...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 24/03/2024

"Iron Council turns the ideological infrastructure of the masters—the magical agency of the railway—against them." From the archives: @chaosbogey.bsky.social's "Golem of Memory: Revolutionary Interruptions, Railway Imaginaries, and China Miéville’s Bas Lag" ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2021/01/25/g...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 20/03/2024

Reading and Writing From Somewhere: @casella.bsky.social reviews ETHICS FOR APOCALYPTIC TIMES by Daniel Shank Cruz (Penn State University Press) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/03/20/r...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 13/03/2024

A Punishing Climate: Joe P.L. Davidson reviews THE 14TH STORM by Daniel J. Mooney (Legends Press) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/03/13/a...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 11/03/2024

Watching an Artist Grow Up: @ossuary.bsky.social on Stan Stanley and THE HAZARDS OF LOVE ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/03/11/w...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 10/03/2024

"A stirring appeal for literary theory in the face of its proclaimed obsolescence." From the archives: @gerrycanavan.bsky.social reviews INVOKING HOPE by Phillip E. Wegner (@uminnpress.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2021/05/19/r...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 08/03/2024

Which Way Utopia? Kurt Schiller reviews THE LOST CAUSE by Cory Doctorow (@torbooks.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/03/08/w...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 06/03/2024

A Long Way To A Big, Friendly Planet: @alexyquest.bsky.social reviews Hao Jingfang's JUMPNAUTS, translated by Ken Liu, out next week from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/03/06/a...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 04/03/2024

Overstaying a Magical Vacation: Electra Pritchett reviews THE BOOK OF LOVE by Kelly Link (Random House) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/03/04/o...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 01/03/2024

Calls for Reviews & Essays: June 2024 ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/03/01/c...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 29/02/2024

Check out our latest Wow! Signal, collecting articles, reviews, interviews and more from around the web: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/02/29/w...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 28/02/2024

A Deafness of the Whole Body: Gareth A. Reeves reviews Sven Holm's TERMUSH, translated by Sylvia Clayton (FSG Originals) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/02/28/a...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 26/02/2024

The SFF Librarian Reviews: A STRANGER IN THE CITADEL by Tobias S. Buckell (@tachyonpub.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/02/26/t...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 23/02/2024

Love and Power, Give and Take: @glassglassmadeof.bsky.social revisits Patricia A. McKillip's THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD, out in a 50th anniversary edition from @tachyonpub.bsky.social next week. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/02/23/l...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 21/02/2024

The End of Whose World? Dominique Arsenault reviews REVENANT ECOLOGIES by Audra Mitchell (@uminnpress.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/02/21/t...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 19/02/2024

In Blood and Stardust: @chloroformtea.bsky.social reviews Meredith Mooring's REDSIGHT (@solarisbooks.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/02/19/i...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 15/02/2024

Beginning Again: Joe P.L. Davidson reviews Michelle Min Sterling's CAMP ZERO, out next week in paperback from Atria. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/02/15/b...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 12/02/2024

A Hundred Different Pieces: @emilyprice.bsky.social reviews Jesse Kohn's THE BOOK OF WEBS (University of Massachusetts Press) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/02/12/a...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 09/02/2024

Less SpaceX than Area X: @megapolisomancy.bsky.social reviews Kate Marshall's NOVELS BY ALIENS (University of Chicago Press) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/02/09/l...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 05/02/2024

A Ride Up the River Weird: @readerdoeshorror.bsky.social reviews GOGMAGOG by Jeff Noon and Steve Beard (Angry Robot) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/02/05/a...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 02/02/2024

In the Bomb's Long Shadow: Jeremy Brett reviews Shigeru Kayama's GODZILLA and GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN, translated by Jeffrey Angles (University of Minnesota Press) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/02/02/i...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 01/02/2024

Calls for Reviews & Essays: May 2024 ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/02/01/c...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 31/01/2024

Fighting Through the Fear: Will McMahon reviews S.J. Klapecki's STATION SIX (AK Press) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/01/31/f...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 29/01/2024

If Looks Could Kill: @alexyquest.bsky.social reviews Sunny Moraine's YOUR SHADOW HALF REMAINS, out next week from Tor Nightfire ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/01/29/i...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 27/01/2024

Introducing ARB's "Wow! Signal" column, a monthly (?) series where we round up interesting reviews, articles, and more from around the web: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/01/27/w...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 24/01/2024

SNAP! CRITICISM is back: @danhartland.bsky.social on dystopia in reality & irreality, and what Lynch's PROPHET SONG (Atlantic Monthly Press) and Tally's THE FICTION OF DREAD (Bloomsbury) have to say about it, and each other ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/01/24/s...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 22/01/2024

Make the Saw Sing: O F Cieri reviews CHAINDEVILS by Matthew Mitchell (@weirdpunkbooks.bsky.social) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/01/22/m...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 19/01/2024

Writing After Humans: @brenram.bsky.social reviews Debbie Urbanski's AFTER WORLD (Simon & Schuster) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/01/19/w...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 17/01/2024

Permafrost Dreams: @casella.bsky.social reviews Ray Nayler's THE TUSKS OF EXTINCTION (Tordotcom) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/01/17/p...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 15/01/2024

AI and Patriarchy: @whiterxbbit.bsky.social reviews Tlotlo Tsamaase's WOMB CITY, out next week from Erewhon Books ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/01/15/a...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 12/01/2024

The SFF Librarian Reviews: Jeremy Brett takes a look at JEWEL BOX by E. Lily Yu (Erewhon) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/01/12/t...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 10/01/2024

Burned Out in a Roman Winter: @alexyquest.bsky.social reviews Salvatore Pane's THE NEOREALIST IN WINTER (Autumn House Press) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/01/10/b...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 04/01/2024

Capitalism is a Nightmare: Christian Haines Reviews Molly McGhee's JONATHAN ABERNATHY YOU ARE KIND (Astra House) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/01/04/c...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 02/01/2024

Calls for Reviews & Essays: April 2024 ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2024/01/02/c...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 31/12/2023

An Anti-Defense of Science Fiction: @casella.bsky.social on Tyler Austin Harper's critique of science fiction, and what defenders like Noah Smith are getting wrong. ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2023/12/31/a...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 21/12/2023

The SFF Librarian Reviews: THE ARCHIVE UNDYING by Emma Mieko Candon (Tordotcom Pub) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2023/12/21/t...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 14/12/2023

The Long Nineteenth Century and the Long Future: Gareth A. Reeves reviews THE ORIGINS OF SCIENCE FICTION, edited by Michael Newton (Oxford University Press) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2023/12/14/t...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 08/12/2023

Magical and Intense: Gareth A. Reeves revisits Knut Hamsun's PAN, in a new translation by Terence Cave (Oxford University Press) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2023/12/08/m...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 05/12/2023

Aut-Ottoman: @eliaseells.bsky.social reviews THE SECOND SIGHT OF ZACHARY CLOUDESLEY by Sean Lusk (Union Square & Co.) ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2023/12/05/a...

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 01/12/2023

Calls for Reviews & Essays: ARB is already thinking about March of next year! Take a look, and send us a pitch: ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2023/12/01/c...

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