Just finished Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time. One of my top reads, let alone sci-fi reads, for the past couple of years for sure. Super well-thought out concepts, good character development, and an irresistible hook that will take you out of your comfort zone when you find out that you really don’t know who you are siding with!
Has anyone read this or any of Tchaikovsky’s other works??
It’s a good book. The concepts are amazing if you’re into sci fi.
There were a couple places where I struggled to keep going, but the book’s promise of more depth always kept me engaged enough to keep going.
I’m there with you, pacing slowed a bit here and there, but for good reasons. Those made for good stop points though.
Took me a good few months if not a year to get through this book but it was worth it. I’d say the concept was great but the execution was lacking. Still a great book though.
I would say that the sequel, Children of Ruin, is actually even better. The series falls off in the third book however.
Read his Final Architecture series recently and absolutely loved it. The characters were great, the world building was interesting and the portrayal of eldritch horrors was so well done.
Starts with the Shards of Earth, highly recommend.
I, too, read that series recently and loved it. However, I think the third book wasn’t as great as the first two, but still good. How does children of time compare with this series? Final Architecture is the only work by the author that I have read.
I listened to the audiobooks if that counts.
He is one of my favoured authors.
My personal top list, of what I “read”
- Children of time
- The doors of eden
- children of ruin
- shards of earth series
On a side note, it’s funny how almost all his books’ titles are like “something” of “something”
I DID notice that lol. Sounds like a pretty good, subtle titling style that people can associate to an author.
To me it feels kinda unoriginal, like they couldn’t think of something better, also it’s not like only Tchaikovsky uses that schematic, there’s plenty of books named “something of *something”
