Reviewing the Mail: Week of 5/2/2026

I think these two books actually arrived last Saturday (April 25), but I didn't get time to write about them until now. (Now being the next Saturday. It's all very Spaceballs.)

Anyway, two books came in from Tachyon, both of which were recently published. Here's what I can tell you about them:

A new collection of stories by Samantha Mills: Rabbit Test and Other Stories. I think this is actually her first collection, and it has thirteen stories: one of them original to this collection, the rest reprinted from the usual wide range of outlets from about the past decade. The title story won the Nebula, Locus and Sturgeon awards, and Mills has also won a Compton Crook award. This one hit stores on April 21.

And a debut novel told in a very modern epistolary way (emails, chats, and more exotic postings): Justin Feinstein's Your Behavior Will Be Monitored. This one came out on April 7th, and is a satirical novel about AI, in which a copywriter is training a new bot under pressure, as his company barrels towards an ever-accelerating product release. (There seems to be a bit of John Sladek in the set-up, which I am absolutely here for.)