Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
I’m going to be honest; I picked this one up based on the cover alone. And like they tell you not to do, I did sort of judge this book by its cover. Well, the cover and the first section of the book. And I thought I’d be dealing with a short set of vignettes about pulp horror monsters in space. Turns out that was a bit of a lowball there—there is actually a story arc that we follow throughout the book. Poor Dementer, has […]
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
Thanks to NetGalley, Dreamscape Media & Dreamscape Lore, Bindery Books, and Ezeekat Press for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review. I had a great time with this weird little genre-bender. I love books where the author was like, should I do mystery? Romance? Paranormal? Horror? Sci-fi? Why not all?? Indeed. Why not all. Our two main characters are ship’s AI’s, the navigator, and the ship’s doctor. Demeter is the ship’s name, and when the book starts she’s just a normal ship, […]
Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
BINGO: migrant, as everyone on these ships is migration to/from Earth and Alpha Centuri hot take who would have thought that a book about AIs and the limitations of their programming would touch my squishy organic heart so much and be the first thing in a while I’ve read that I genuinely didn’t want to put down, and which I didn’t know how it would end! What a quirky little book that absolutely nails its gimmick from the get go. Our POV characters are varied, […]
