Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Time (EBook, 2018, Orbit)
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Publikuota 2018 m. rugsėjo 18 d., Orbit.
Who will inherit this new Earth?
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age—a world terraformed and prepared for human life.
But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.
Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?
Quite a feat of writing: Literary language, engaging plot, clever ending, amazing world-building, thought-provoking questions. The humans weren't quite as interesting as the spiders, sure, but their story was a good foil and drove the plot.
I enjoyed this one a lot. The ending left a little bit more to be desired, but overall it was a great read.
What a great book. I'm so happy I went back to it, and I'm looking forward to starting the second book in the trilogy, probably in the new year.
I would highly recommend this to any and all sci fi fans.
Incredible! "The smartest evolutionary world-building you'll ever read", indeed! I was not expecting that wonderful ending. I was bracing myself for an ending I would not like, but I was wrong!
I can't wait to start the second book.
Amazing. I found the civilization on the terraformed planet to be completely fascinating. I haven’t read or watched a lot of sci-fi, but I remember stories where the humans were the heroes and had to fight alien invaders that would come and try to annihilate them. In this novel it’s pretty much the opposite: the humans are the invaders, and I was rooting for the "other" civilization. The end was also very satisfyingly: somehow surprising, yet consistent with what happened before.
