This deeply affected me, I found it a moving story about a dog who is modified to be a weapon learning about the truth about his master and trying to make better choices for his life. The story starts with him with some very simplistic thinking but as the story unfolds you can see him changing, beco...
As a seasoned SF reader, I've always disagree strongly with the assessment of milSF as glorification of war; "The Forever War", after all, betrays the political strand of extreme dubiousness about war that also exists in science fiction, a strand demonstrated also in novels such as John Scalzi's “Ol...
From the blurb: "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...
Narrator: Mel Hudson All the stars. This was a reread by audio and I honestly had just as much fun the second time around, and I quite liked the narrator. In a far-flung future, Adrian Tchaikovsky explores humanity, empathy, and how to overcome your species's past. It's awesome. And he makes you...
I bought the book based on the blurb thinking I had an idea of what the story was about. Well...I wasn't entirely wrong but had I known it was partly about a race of giant, intelligent spiders I probably wouldn't have picked it up because a) I really can't stand the beasts and b) it would have sound...
This book is a compilation of five novellas that try to expand the plays of Shakespeare while mixing and matching them into a whole. So we have characters from the Tempest mixed in with those from a Midsummer's Night Dream mixed in with those from Macbeth (each time someone says his name he's owed a...
Series: Shadows of the Apt #2 Adrian Tchaikovsky's earlier books aren't quite as good as his later books, but they're still entertaining. This one took me quite a while to get through for a variety of reasons, but in my defence, it's a good 700 pages. This installment brings war to the Lowlands ...
This book’s blurb didn’t sound very interesting, but I’m glad I went ahead with it anyway. Rather than a boring old fantasy quest adventure (yawn), we get a spider turned into a man (of sorts) who allows us to see the hypocrisy of the characters on the side of the Light. The spider, Nth or Enth (dep...
Series: Shadows of the Apt #1 After reading Children of Time, I wanted to read some of Tchaikovsky’s other stuff, and especially for an early novel this was quite good. It’s also the start to a massive ten-book series. This world is populated by a multitude of human races with insect and arachni...
This was my first book by Adrian Tchaikovsky and it was even better than expected. A completely entertaining story of a far future exploration and terraformimg of a new world. This is hard science fiction at it's best and in the tale of the spiders rise to an advanced species, I was reminded of one ...
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