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Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky

September 23, 2026 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

There are a few authors who seem to be barely human in their ability to consistently generate interesting, novel novels. I understand how difficult it is to do art, and I appreciate greatly that there’s a lot of work that goes into doing art. Tchaikovsky seems to do art on a different level–the Roberts/Sanderson level–where there’s like, a book or two or three every year and all pretty different and always a good outing even when, like with this book, I found them less keen […]

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

wicherwill's CBR18 Review No:53 · Genres: Mystery, Science Fiction · Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky ·
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My first draft of this review was entirely about a video game

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

August 6, 2026 by vega-table 4 Comments

CBR18 Bingo – joker: because some call them the space cowboy… Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky is the first book in the Final Architecture series. I see his work recommended a lot and I think I know his work. Then I realize I’m thinking of an imaginary person who is part Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and part Arkady Martine. So I’m happy to finally read something by the actual author. Humans are settling into the galactic space community when a mysterious and seemingly all-powerful space […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, cbr18bingo

vega-table's CBR18 Review No:34 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky, cbr18bingo ·
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Green City Wars

Life, uhh, finds a way. – The Divine Jeff

Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky

May 5, 2026 by Emmalita 4 Comments

I requested Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Green City Wars because I was intrigued by the premise – Philip Marlow meets Redwall with a raccoon private investigator. This is not an inaccurate description. BUT! It’s Phillip Marlow meets Redwall written by Adrian Tchaikovsky. When I understood the premise of the world in Green City Wars, I had to lie down for a bit. It is so deeply dystopian. The humans have created what may be a utopia for themselves, and to achieve it, they’ve bio-engineered small animals, amphibians, […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, dystopia, Green City Wars, John Pirhalla

Emmalita's CBR18 Review No:31 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky, dystopia, Green City Wars, John Pirhalla ·
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a metaphor for the defeat of the terrible tech/political men but make it scifi with spiders

Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky

April 26, 2026 by wicherwill Leave a Comment

Already we are very behind, but this time it is became I am back in the clutches of AO3, the Heated Rivalry edition, and there are many thousands of words I have eaten in that vein. But here has muscled in a book that absolutely grabbed my attention and clung tight, much like the squelching, squirming, scavenging Life of the Hartland. To get it out of the way: is this five star book in that it is a perfect book? No, but you should know […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky

wicherwill's CBR18 Review No:9 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky ·
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Three sci-fi books making me think about robots and AI

Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

Rose/House by Arkady Martine

Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

March 10, 2026 by Dome'Loki 1 Comment

The end of January to the very beginning of March has had the good fortune to have three excellent books looking at robots, AI, sentience, autonomy, finding meaning, and limitations on the flawed way humanity has programmed robots/AI.  While setting up this post, I just realized all the author’s first name start with A.  Huh, kind of interesting. First up was a novella by Annalee Newitz, Automatic Noodle.  This is the most fun and lighthearted of the bunch.  It is the year 2064, a few years […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Adrian Tchaikovsky, AI, Annalee Newitz, arkady martine, artificial intelligence, cbr18, Dome'Loki, Fiction, novella, robots, sci-fi

Dome'Loki's CBR18 Review No:6 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, Adrian Tchaikovsky, AI, Annalee Newitz, arkady martine, artificial intelligence, cbr18, Dome'Loki, Fiction, novella, robots, sci-fi ·
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“there’s a limit to how much sentiment a large therapod can really hang on to.”

One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky

December 30, 2025 by Nart Leave a Comment

Tchaikovsky is, at this point, one of my favourite authors. His writing is so sharp, witty, philosophical, and pessimistically hopeful for the future, and this novella is no exception. Although it is, I think, perhaps a bit more pessimistic than hopeful. Plot: Our hero is a veteran and only survivor of the Causality War. The last war to end all wars (for real this time). And he has one job, to stop humanity from ruining everything that ever was, again. The only way to do […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Nart's CBR17 Review No:52 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: Adrian Tchaikovsky ·
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