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

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Credits:

• Guest: Archita Mittra
• Title: Among Others by Jo Walton
• Host: Jake Casella Brookins
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

References:

• Eliza Chan’s Fathomfolk & Archita’s review
• Sue Lynn Tan's Immortal
• Lavanya Lakshminarayan's Interstellar Megachef & The Ten Percent Thief
• Michael Nieva's Dengue Boy
• Isaac Fellman's Notes from a Regicide
• Ursula K. Le Guin's The Lathe of Heaven
• Ernest Cline's Ready Player One
• Stranger Things
• J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
• Jame Tiptree, Jr.
• Samuel R. Delany's Babel-17
• List of books mentioned in Among Others
• Anne Rice Vampire Chronicles
• C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia
• Le Guin’s “Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?” from The Language of the Night
• Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat's Cradle
• Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and Delany’s Trouble on Triton
• Walton’s Informal History of the Hugos
• C.J. Cherryh's Gate of Ivrel
• Archita's reviews @ Strange Horizons & Locus
• Archita on Twitter, Bluesky, Instagram
• Archita's Locus year-end
• Casella’s Locus year-end
• Jared Pechaček's The West Passage, Casella's review, and of course Jared's A Meal of Thorns episode on E.R. Eddison’s Mistress of Mistress