Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.

Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!

Credits:

• Guest: Benjamin Rosenbaum
• Title: Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• Ben’s novel, The Unraveling, and latest game, The Ghost & The Golem
• The Mohanraj & Rosenbaum Are Humans podcast
• GennaRose Nethercott’s Thistlefoot
• Kelly Link’s The Book of Love
• Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice & sequels
• Evan Dahm's The Last Delivery & Harrowing of Hell
• Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings (who also illustrated the Elemental Logic covers)
• Myers-Briggs personality test
• Orson Scott Card’s The Tales of Alvin Maker
• Avery Alder on queer game mechanics
• Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Day Before the Revolution”
• George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire
• Small Beer Press
• Sofia Samatar's A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories
• Seth Dickinson’s The Traitor Baru Cormorant
• A Meal of Thorns 07 – THE TRAITOR BARU CORMORANT with Amal El-Mohtar
• Nelson Mandela wearing the Sprinbok jersey
• Davids Graeber & Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything
• Le Guin’s Five Ways to Forgiveness
• Isaac Asimov’s Foundation
• John W. Campbell & Joseph Campbell
• Maimonides & Saladin
• Coffee & the “Europe Sobered Up” theory
• Isaac Bashevis Singer’s “Yentl” & adaptations