A Meal of Thorns 28 – EXCESSION with Abigail Nussbaum

14/07/2025 1h 8min

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Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books.Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon!Credits:Guest: Abigail NussbaumTitle: Excession by Iain M. BanksHost: Jake Casella BrookinsMusic by Giselle Gabrielle GarciaArtwork by Rob PattersonOpening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John BroughTranscribers: Kate Dollarhyde and John WM ThompsonReferences:VectorLos Angeles Review of BooksThe GuardianStrange HorizonsLawyers, Guns & MoneyWarren ZevonAsking the Wrong QuestionsAbigail’s Track ChangesColourfields by Paul KincaidNina Allan’s Granite Silence and The Art of Space TravelEd Park’s An Oral History of AtlantisBanks’ Consider Phlebas, Use of Weapons, & The Player of GamesFully Automated Luxury Gay Space CommunismStar TrekJohn le CarréAndorTransmentation Transience by Darkly LemOutside Context Problems & Aggressive Hegemonizing SwarmsStanislaw LemKubrick/Clarke's 2001Paul Kincaid's biography of BanksMaurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things AreC.J. CherryhYudhanjaya Wijeratne's Salvager booksGreg EganAnn Leckie's Imperial RadchYoon Ha Lee's Machineries of EmpireBanks’ Look to WindwardAbigail's BlueskyKim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the FutureNed Beauman's Venomous LumpsuckerNeal Stephenson's Termination Shock

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