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> Tag: Adrian Tchaikovsky
lounging cat with Shards of Earth book in foreground

530 pages and I wasn’t ready for it to be over

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

January 29, 2023 by Bothari43 3 Comments

Adrian’s stuff is so dense and layered, it’s hard to do a recap/overview. SO MUCH happens, and it’s all smart and dramatic and amazing! The world-building is so cool, the root-for-able characters and interesting plot are almost a bonus. Okay, enough gushing. The very very nutshell version: 40 years ago, ginormous alien ships (if you made a drinking game out of every time they’re described as ‘moon-sized,’ you’d be a puddle by the end) showed up and started making beautiful and deadly sculptures out of […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, bad aliens, brain experiments, genetic augmentation, good aliens, intergalactic war, scruffy nerfherders

Bothari43's CBR15 Review No:3 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky, bad aliens, brain experiments, genetic augmentation, good aliens, intergalactic war, scruffy nerfherders ·
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back in the spider saddle again~

Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky

January 18, 2023 by wicherwill 3 Comments

I am really digging these books and how they expand the universe Tchaikovsky has created one step at a time, but realistically. Look not at how long it took me to read this (that’s a function of work, not desire). Perhaps do read this one soon after reading the prior book–I can see how you’d benefit from remembering some of the details from the prior, or how not remembering the prior book would make this one less rich. There’s the same sort of beats–similar to […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children Of Time

wicherwill's CBR15 Review No:4 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children Of Time ·
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detailed ‘heavy’ sci-fi at its finest

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

December 30, 2022 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

This is definitely another off the long White Whale list, as I think I’ve checked it out from the library a number of times before finally cracking it open this time around. Best “you’d like this if you liked” that I can give is likely Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. What an excellent, well thought out sci-fi novel—entirely standalone, if you want to, but with additional installments afterwards that expand on the themes here. The concept at the heart is directed evolution, and how it […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children Of Time

wicherwill's CBR14 Review No:158 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children Of Time ·
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“What a clever, doomed money I am.”

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

November 12, 2022 by Nart Leave a Comment

Do you remember Starship Troopers? That perfect 1997 classic about a militaristic future where earth has encountered an alien species so foreign that war is the only viable path forward? And did you, like me, wish you got to learn more about the bugs? This is that book. It’s like Star Trek: Deep Space 9 on whatever is more intense than steroids. This is Asimov Foundation series on super alien steroids. I *need* you to read it, and then I *need* you to come back […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Nart's CBR14 Review No:51 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky ·
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Turning planets into origami

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

August 22, 2022 by Malin 8 Comments

CBR14 Bingo: Cold (the majority of this novel is set in spaaace, which is famously very cold) It would also work for Star and Series.  Official book description: Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade his mind in the war. And one of humanity’s heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien enemy. Many escaped, but millions more died. So mankind created enhanced humans ­such as Idris – […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Adrian Tchaikovsky, adventure, Aliens, cbr14, cbr14bingo, Cold, Malin, Outland book club, Post Apocalyptic, ragtag crew, Shards of Earth, space opera, The Last Architects

Malin's CBR14 Review No:20 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Adrian Tchaikovsky, adventure, Aliens, cbr14, cbr14bingo, Cold, Malin, Outland book club, Post Apocalyptic, ragtag crew, Shards of Earth, space opera, The Last Architects ·
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“I should just follow you clowns around…Find all the trouble in the galaxy that way…”

Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky

May 2, 2022 by Emmalita Leave a Comment

Things are not going well when the second book in The Final Architecture series, Eyes of the Void, opens. In Shards of Earth, we learned the Architects were themselves slaves, forced to destroy worlds. But the contact Idris Telemer made with the Architect isn’t stopping the destruction of planets and ships. Idris is with the Partheni, trying to find a strain of the clones that can be made into Intermediaries without the coercion and the high death rate in the Hugh (Council of Humans) program. […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, advance reader copy, Eyes of the Void, NetGalley

Emmalita's CBR14 Review No:57 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky, advance reader copy, Eyes of the Void, NetGalley ·
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