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I #AmReading Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- 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.

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I've finished: City of Last Chances by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Readers of Shadow of the Apt will find familiar themes here: A fascist modernizing empire, the waning magic of the old world that can still pack a punch. Ancient curses.

But the emphasis is on different areas. Everything happens in one occupied city. The endless continental war and emphasis on grand strategy of Shadows of the Apt is not present. We get more characters and factions and their motivations.

My favorite characters are the god of healing and his priest. They are both satire and comic relief. Holding up a pacifist option that finds no takers.

Tchaikovsky has grown as an author and City of Last Chances is better suited to my taste at 49 than the military fantasy of Shadow of the Apt.

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app.thestorygraph.comCity of Last Chances by Adrian TchaikovskyArthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fan...

Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shards of Earth feels like it's borrowing from all my favorite space opera tropes the way his Children of Time played with pretty much every possible generation-ship-gone-wrong scenario.

I'm about a third of the way through and enjoying the ride. It reminds me of some things I loved about Iain Banks' Culture books, especially some of the really fun bits of Consider Phlebas.

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Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The vintage Tchaikovsky originality but without the (sometimes very) over the top action. Interesting ideas. Complex heroes and inscrutable villains. Classic action/detective story ploys perfectly adapted to space and space travel. Palpable atmosphere. Great read!

Looking forward to book 2 and 3 of the series.

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#introduction 3! I AM ALSO EXTREMELY INTO.... #books and #reading. I particularly enjoy #SciFi and #HardScienceFiction / #HardSciFi - generally anything by #JoeHaldeman #JohnScalzi #DennisETaylor #MarkoKloos #PoulAnderson #AndyWeir #AdrianTchaikovsky. I would absolutely LOVE it if people suggested books to me as I'm not very good at finding ones I like. The #Bobiverse series was probably my most favourite recent read. Again I welcome interaction about this.

This podcast conversation between author Adrian Tchaikovsky and Ezra Klein quickly gets deep and mind-bendy. Midway through, there’s a profound discussion about how AI causes us to question the nature (and humanity) of creativity, as well as the innate attraction we have to derivative art. Fascinating. → pca.st/yvujrtsu

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Pocket CastsInside the Minds of Spiders, Octopuses and Artificial Intelligence - The Ezra Klein ShowAdrian Tchaikovsky’s “Children of Time” is about an advanced civilization built by sentient spiders. A sequel, “Children of Ruin,” is about a society run by superintelligent octopuses. I love these books. They’re remarkably serious about their premises, and by the end, it’s human civilization and our limited sensorium that come to seem strange. But Tchaikovsky’s latest book, “Children of Memory,” ostensibly about crows, read as something very different to me: the best fictional representation I’ve read of what it is like to interact with, and perhaps even be, an artificial intelligence system like ChatGPT. It was a very strange read at this moment. And it made possible an episode I’ve been wanting to do for months. Long before we have to face the question of whether A.I. is sentient, we will have to face the question of whether it is creative, and that will turn into the question of whether we, truly, are creative. And so Tchaikovsky and I talk about whether there’s a meaningful difference between human
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I'm also Extremely Into #ScienceFiction #SciFi #HardSciFi #HardScienceFiction #Books

During lockdown I rediscovered my love of reading - stumbling across #JohnScalzi #OldMansWar, which I loved and reminded a bit me of the #JoeHaldeman #ForeverWar series. Which led me to the #Bobiverse books by #DennisETaylor which I LOVED.

I also very much like....
#MarkoKloos
#AndyWeir
#PoulAnderson
#AdrianTchaikovsky

Genuinely looking for more suggestions!

Which of these four choices is the best #SpaceOpera #book #series? #curious :blobcat: 🚀

If you think there's a better space opera series than one of these, add it to the comments. Add your comments!

Boost this #poll if you can. Thanks!

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