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A Meal of ThornsAuthor: The Ancillary Review of Books
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A Meal of Thorns 45- THE DEEP SEA DIVER’S SYNDROME with Alexander Dickow
Monday, 9 March, 2026
In this science fiction novel, translated from the French, dreamers “dive” into their own subconscious and return with mysterious & valuable objects. Translator, author, & scholar Alexander Dickow joins to discuss Francophone SF, weird fiction, and artistic allegories & analogies. Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at the Ancillary Review of Books. Please consider supporting ARB’s Patreon! Guest: Alexander Dickow Title: The Deep-Sea Diver’s Syndrome by Serge Brussolo, translated by Edward Gauvin Host:Jake Casella Brookins Music byGiselle Gabrielle Garcia Artwork byRob Patterson Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough References: Nominate for the Hugos (if you’re eligible to) Nominate for the Le Guin prize (open to all!) The Translated Hugo Initiative Alexander’s Strange Horizons article on Francophone SF China Miéville Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation Poets Skip Fox & Ian Seeds Emil Petaja’s The Nets of Space Philippe Curval Kilgore Trout Alfred Jarry & ‘Pataphysics Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan Philip K. Dick Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?/Bladerunner PKD’s The Galactic Pot Healer, Confessions of a Crap Artist, Ubik Nathalie Sarraute’s work on Proust (possibly in The Age of Suspicion) Tolkien's “Leaf By Niggle” Harrison's Clomping Foot of Nerdism C.J. Cherryh's Wave Without A Shore Samuel Richardson Walter Scott Keats’ letter to Woodhouse: “A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence.” PKD’s A Scanner Darkly “Smellevision replaces television” Zachary Gillan’s work on the "Weird Art Story" Richard Gavin Alexander’s “The Weird and the Fantastic: Genre in Theory and Genre as History” Laurent Genefort Nnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author Honoré de Balzac Samatar's Olondriannovels Ray Bradbury's "The Jar" Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun "Anti-fantasy" Christopher Nolan's Inception JJ Abram's “Mystery Box” (blech boo hiss) Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart Alexander's Linktree Alain Damasio’s The Horde of the Counterwind
