Welcome back to another year of the Quill to Live’s Sci-Fi Fantasy March Madness! Every year in March, I find myself roped into all sorts of fantasy and sci-fi fight conversations. “Who would win in a fight between X and Y?” is a constant topic among fans, as everyone wants to make an inane argument…
Continue reading ➞ QTL March Madness 2025: Coolest Science Fiction Ships
Ten years is a long time! We’ve spent most of it reviewing books, making lists, and shouting our recommendations from the rooftops. Today, we’re taking a little break from the world of SFF books. I (Cole) asked each QTL writer to drop three new recommendations with two rules—first, no SFF. Second, no books! Otherwise, nothing…
Continue reading ➞ Off The Shelf: Our Top Non SFF, Non-Book Recommendations
Today we have the QTL's favorite books to recommend! As people who run a book review site, we unsurprisingly get a number of requests for book recommendations. Oftentimes, when people are just getting started in Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror, we like to give them huge genre staples that everyone already knows. But, as the people around us have…
As part of the 10-year anniversary, I (Alex) wanted writers at QTL to talk a little bit about the things they’ve written. To make it easy, I figured it would be fun to look at our first ever review for the site and really sit in our own cringiness. Then, they should take a little…
Book recommendations can reveal a lot about a person and be extremely personal. Even though fantasy and sci-fi stories are set in other worlds, they have the uncanny ability to capture a reader’s real desires, fears, unique brand of humor, romantic types, taste for adventure, and so much more. The books we share with one…
I am delighted to announce that The Quill to Live will celebrate its 10th anniversary this week (Thursday, March 27th)! Per this momentous occasion, the writers have been putting together a series of pieces that celebrate the site in both serious and silly ways. Over the next two weeks, we will publish tributes, lists, and…
The future is now, and it is bright and dazzling. Divinity 36, by Gail Carriger, reads like a next-generation YA staple that will sit undiscovered for a while and make huge waves when it goes mainstream with the youth. The name of the game is divinity. There is no difference between celebrity and religion, love…
King-a-ding-ding, everyone! The Stephen King bell tolls once more, which means I’m here to deliver a fresh book review. This time, we’ve got a recent King book, Fairy Tale, published in 2022. Does the book feature a scary threat lurking in the dark corners of the world? Is a small town in trouble? Will a…
Well, shut me in a dark and dreary house and call me mad because I finally found a gothic story that I love. Johanna van Veen’s latest novel, Blood on Her Tongue, proved to me that a story can honor all the typical gothic tale dressings while finding new, complicated ways to shock and disturb…
Continuing my quest into the deep reaches of space, I stumbled across this next book deep in a Reddit thread. Marrow, by Robert Reed, is the beginning of what I assume to be a strange journey into the hell that is the infinite cosmos. I mean this with love and respect, as I adored this…
