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…
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I am always a little unsure how to describe something like Service Model, as it is a book that lives more as a humorous opinion piece than a traditional story. The absurdism and commentary in Service Model add up to a fascinating 4th wall break that intentionally does away with the usual narrative barrier between…
Today, I get to review one of my most anticipated books of the year, which is always very exciting. The Archive Undying, by Emma Mieko Candon, is one of those rare books that I don’t know if I recommend. The novel has clear strengths and weaknesses, but the way the scale tips will depend on…
This review will be short and sweet and primarily for those of you who are already reading The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells. If you aren’t already reading Murderbot, you have made a mistake; please go read my review for book one - All Systems Red. To the rest of you who are still here,…
Let’s get it out of the way early: Martha Wells’ Network Effect is phenomenal and likely surpasses the high expectations set by the novellas. If you are coming into this paragraph and don’t know what I am talking about, I assume you have been living under a rock. Wells’ Murderbot novellas have repeatedly raked in…
Repo Virtual is a peculiar and somber book that feels like a mash-up of different stories. Although it’s not quite a debut, as the author Corey J. White has a number of other publications to their name, we decided to put it in our dark horse initiative because not a lot of people seemed to…
I am back with another short review for a novella, and it's once again for Matha Well’s incredible Hugo winning Murberbot Series. The award for best novella was definitely deserved for the first book in the series, All Systems Red, which I reviewed here. However, today we are here to talk about the third short…
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