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The Original by Brandon Sanderson; Mary Robinette Kowal

January 17, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A novella co-written by Sanderson and Kowal, and with every co-written book like this, especially when I know both authors’ work to a certain degree, I spend a lot of time thinking about who must have written what. It’s not like a lot of Brandon Sanderson works, but it’s not quite what I know from Kowal. The novella is called “The Original” because we find ourselves in a future in which people can opt-in or out of certain technologies, including a cloning technology. Our narrator […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: brandon sanderson, Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Mary Robinette Kowal

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: brandon sanderson, Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Mary Robinette Kowal ·
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The Original

For someone who said back in February they didn’t like sci-fi, I sure as hell am reading an awful lot of sci-fi

The Original by Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal

August 5, 2021 by postcardsandbooks 8 Comments

I have to confess I picked this book to read just because I was having a hard time finding a book with a cityscape on the cover. And this cityscape might be a little stylized, but there’s a reason for that and I’ll get into it, but let’s take a moment to celebrate Book Bingo incentivizing me to read. Hooray. The Original is a novella that was produced specifically to be launched as an audiobook, and I honestly love that concept. While I don’t think […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: brandon sanderson, Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, cbr13bingo, Mary Robinette Kowal

postcardsandbooks's CBR13 Review No:39 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: brandon sanderson, Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, cbr13bingo, Mary Robinette Kowal ·
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