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Work InformationChildren of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Another great book in this trilogy of intelligent scifi. There is much to like - the characters are engaging, there is some play - as in the gender reversal in the Portiid spiders, where it is the males who have to defer and pander in order to get ahead, the focus on (accelerated) evolution as part of the plot development, and the science which may not always be scientifically plausible, but remains believable in a fictional setting. I was not a fan of the non-linear plot progression - with alternating sections from the past and present. I know that authors today sign up to a sacred pledge to never tell a story in linear fashion, but in this case I don't thenk anything was gained by the shuffling of timed segments. Looking forward now to Part 3 of the series. Excuse me why did no one TELL ME THERE WAS A SEQUEL!!!!! DNF at 82%. Hold's on to finish this, but I really need a physical book. It's brilliant but it's slow and I'm so bad at reading slow books digitally. People seem to be more receptive to my telling them about sentient octopi than spiders. But honestly, I don't recommend reading this during a pandemic. We're going on an adventure and it's a bit too much. no reviews | add a review
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HTML:The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life â?? but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time. Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, hoping to find cousins from old Earth. But those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better left undisturb No library descriptions found.
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I will be recommending this duology for years to come. ( )