Forward Collection: Quill Quotes Book Club

Welcome to the 16th edition of Quill Quotes Book Club! It’s been a while since the last book club but we’re super excited to get back to reading with you. The Forward Collection is a set of six short sci-fi stories we’ll read over the next six weeks. We hope you enjoy reading with us! Keep reading for all the details on the book, where to get it, and our reading schedule. This page will be updated with links to each discussion so keep it handy as a reference. We can’t wait for our first discussion on Saturday, May 7th, 2022!

Forward Collection Genre Science Fiction Quill Quotes Book Club

Book Stats

Title: Forward Collection
Author: Blake Crouch, Veronica Roth, N.K. Jemisin, Amor Towles, Paul Tremblay, Andy Weir
Genre: Science Fiction
Publication Date: September 17, 2019
Pages: 321
Estimated Reading Time: 8 hours

Quick Summary

Forward Collection Summary

A collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.

Take a leap. For some, it’s the end of the world. For others, it’s just the beginning. With brilliant imagination, today’s most visionary writers point to the future in a collection curated by bestselling author Blake Crouch. These stories range from darkly comic to deeply chilling, but they all look forward.

Ark by Veronica Roth

On the eve of Earth’s destruction, a young scientist discovers something too precious to lose, in a story of cataclysm and hope by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent trilogy. [Read more]

Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bending exploration of what it means to be human by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion. [Read more]

Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award-winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy. [Read more]

You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles

Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of the near future by the New York Times bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow. [Read more]

The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay

What’s more frightening: Not knowing who you are? Or finding out? A Bram Stoker Award-winning author explores the answer in a chilling story about identity and human consciousness. [Read more]

Randomize by Andy Weir

In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in this imaginative and whip-smart story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian. [Read more]

Where to get the book?

As Amazon Original Stories, the Forward Collection is available on Kindle and Audible. Plus, it’s currently free for Prime members!

Reading Schedule

Each book in the Forward Collection should only take about an hour to read. So, we’ll discuss a story each week for the next six weeks! We can’t wait to hear your thoughts!

Links will be added below to each discussion once we’ve read the books so keep this page handy. You can leave your comments anytime but we’ll look to be most active at 10am CT on the discussion dates.

We can’t wait to discuss the Forward Collection with you! Let’s get reading!