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WWAC Reads Books! Fantasy Romance Edition

December 30, 2024

We’ve got a wide array of fantasy and romance for you all this time around, with an epic historical tearjerker and a thoughtful piece of progressive nonfiction to round things out!

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System Collapse by Martha Wells sends Murderbot on a fast-paced mission: Spoiler-free Review

November 14, 2023

Martha Wells’ latest installment in The Murderbot Diaries comes out today, November 14 from Tor! System Collapse is a quick-paced and satisfying escapade that takes place almost immediately after the novel Network Effect leaves off.

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WWAC Reads Books! August Brought Romance, Trans Poetry and Gripping Twists

August 31, 2023

This month we read and enjoyed eclectically: everything from classic fantasy adventure, to trans poetry, to young adult romance, to creepy fairy tale reboot and to contemporary suspense. Whatever your taste, our August reading has you covered!

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ROUNDTABLE: WWAC Reads Books! June Brings Resistance, David Levithan, and Fantasy Romance

June 29, 2023

This month at WWAC, we’ve sauntered into summer with a collection of fantastic reads, from gripping middle grades fiction, to a new high fantasy from Martha Wells, to a winner of the Booker Prize, to a politically progressive anthology, and points beyond. Read on for a number of ways (the ...

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2021 Hugo Award Review: Network Effect by Martha Wells

December 14, 2021

Martha Wells’ Murderbot series must surely be counted among the biggest hits of contemporary science fiction. The story of an artificial being – half-machine and half-clone – who became a freelance bodyguard was originally told over the course of four novellas: All Systems Red, Artificial ...

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Murderbot Doesn’t Love Parenting. Murderbot Just Wants to Watch Its Shows.

March 30, 2021

With the upcoming release of Fugitive Telemetry, the sixth book in the Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells, I have been thinking about how Murderbot explores more and more of what it means to be a person in each book. Specifically, I’m thinking about the family relationships it encounters ...

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Network Effect Catapults Murderbot into the Wider Universe: Spoiler-free Review

May 5, 2020

Network Effect is the fifth and as-yet longest installment in the adventures of Murderbot by Martha Wells, introduced in the multiple award-winning novella All Systems Red in 2017. The novel is a great addition to the series, giving readers exactly more of what we love from the Murderbot books: ...

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Machina Delivers Suspense and Robots

February 4, 2020

Machina takes place in a near(ish) future, in which it has become increasingly clear that humans cannot stay on Earth longterm with any expectation of survival. That’s why rival tech companies are competing for a choice Government contract to send their AIs to Mars: to begin terraforming for ...

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2019 Hugo Award Reviews: Novellas Part Two

July 30, 2019

Welcome to another instalment of our six-part series looking at this year’s finalists for the Hugo Awards! The previous post covered three contenders for Best Novella. Now let us round off the category by looking at the three that remain…

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Book Beat: Arthur A. Levine Leaves Scholastic, Lambda Finalists, and More Murderbot!

March 14, 2019

Hello Book Lovers! It’s Christa here, and it’s Thursday, which means it’s time to talk about all of the bookish news from the previous week. For this Book Beat, there have been some award announcements, some industry shuffling, and some exciting adaptation news. So, ...

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WWAC Reads Books! Fantasy Romance Edition

System Collapse by Martha Wells sends Murderbot on a fast-paced mission: Spoiler-free Review

WWAC Reads Books! August Brought Romance, Trans Poetry and Gripping Twists

ROUNDTABLE: WWAC Reads Books! June Brings Resistance, David Levithan, and Fantasy Romance

2021 Hugo Award Review: Network Effect by Martha Wells

Murderbot Doesn’t Love Parenting. Murderbot Just Wants to Watch Its Shows.

Network Effect Catapults Murderbot into the Wider Universe: Spoiler-free Review

Machina Delivers Suspense and Robots

2019 Hugo Award Reviews: Novellas Part Two

Book Beat: Arthur A. Levine Leaves Scholastic, Lambda Finalists, and More Murderbot!

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