non-fiction & criticism
2020
“Cities that think like planets”: on writing sustainable cities in science fiction”, SFWA Bulletin #215
2019
Review: Dead Astronauts, Jeff Vandermeer, NPR Books
Review: Curious Toys, Elizabeth Hand, NPR Books
Review: Gods of Jade and Shadow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, NPR Books
“Everyone’s World Is Ending All the Time: notes on becoming a climate planner at the edge of the Anthropocene”, Uncanny Magazine 28
Review: Storm of Locusts, Rebecca Roanhorse, NPR Books
Podcast: ‘342. Stories Are Everything: learning about narratology with Arkady Martine’, Smart Bitches Trashy Books
“Diplomats and Aliens: why you should pair spy novels with science fiction”, Bookish
“One Free Trick: How to Use the Writing Skills You Have to Learn the Ones You Don’t”, Tor.com
“On the Cult of Originality: What Byzantine Literary Culture Can Tell Us About Fanfiction”, Tor.com
“Seeing Like A State: Arkady Martine’s Favorite Books About the Mechanisms of Government”, Bookish
“I Didn’t Understand Perfume Until I Fell In Love”, Self/Reflection, The Cut
Review: A People’s Future of the United States, Victor LaValle & John Joseph Adams (eds.), NPR Books
“The Mysterious Discipline of Narratologists: Why We Need Stories to Make Sense”, Tor.com
2018
“How To Make Beer With Only What You Can Grow on a Generation Ship”, Tor.com
“What Science Fiction Can Learn From Archaeology”, SFWA Bulletin #213
Review: The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander, Strange Horizons
2017
Review: The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories, edited by Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin, Strange Horizons
"Star Wars' Vice-Admiral Holdo and Our Expectations for Female Military Power", Tor.com
2016
"Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Queerness, and Desire in Chris Moriarity's Spin State Trilogy", Tor.com
Review: Report From Planet Midnight by Nalo Hopkinson, Strange Horizons
Sleeps With Monsters (Guest Post): "Once Again We Return" - The Wicked + The Divine, Tor.com
2015
academic research
As Dr. AnnaLinden Weller, I write about border politics, narrative theory, and Byzantine-Armenian relations in the 9th-11th centuries CE. Recent articles have appeared in Byzantinoslavica, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, and The Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. Some of those articles are accessible below:
“Ideological storyworlds in Byzantium and Armenia: historiography and model selves in narratives of insurrection” in Storytelling in Byzantium, ed. Ingela Nilsson, Margaret Mullett, and Charis Messis, 2018 (Uppsala University Press). — volume available from Uppsala University (full text); (article full text @ academia.edu)
“Byzantinophilia in the letters of Grigor Magistros?”, in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 41.2 (2017) — Cambridge Core Read-Only Version (full text)
“‘Byzantis’ as a moveable quality: carrying Constantinople into the frontier provinces in the 10th-11th centuries”, in Byzantinoslavica LXXIV (2016) — available for 3 euro on CEEOL; contact me for a free research copy.
“Marrying the Mongol Khans: Byzantine imperial women and the diplomacy of conversion in the 13th and 14th centuries”, in The Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 2 (2016) — open access (full text)