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His literary influences include Gene Wolfe, Mervyn Peake, China Miéville, Mary Gently, Steven Erikson, Naomi Novak, Scott Lynch and Alan Campbell. Kindle edition, Location 7866) That is one of many human touches that Tchaikovsky adds at key moments as a sharp contrast to the values guiding much of the universe that is trying to use Idris as a weapon of war. His books are packed with thought-provoking ideas (as well as lots of spiders; did I mention the spiders? Of course, there is nothing wrong with going back to the same well as others as long as you bring something new, and usually, Adrian Tchaikovsky can be trusted to do that. Idris is sooo close to finally grasping it and giving us readers the answers we've been begging for since volume 1 .
The planets under attack – and that is potentially every world of sentient beings – fall back on launching people into permanent life in space as a way of hopefully escaping further notice of the Architects.
Hat mir deutlich besser gefallen als der zweite Teil, der etwas daran litt, der mittlere zu sein mMn. It is this human contact that enables him to function despite his total immersion in his mental wanderings. The good guys rally and mount a breathless, last minute, do or die mission ( that lasts the final third of the book). I think Tchaikovsky characters are always engaging as well, coming across as very human, flawed, but not too flawed to make them unsympathetic, and mostly heroic despite themselves. The frequency with which they are entering and being pulled out of that place to deal with yet more inconsequential filler turned the book into a slog.
This made me feel all the feels and even had me reduced to tears (see a particular status update) and the pages raced by with he holding on during this mad dash for dear life. Her anger at the Parthenon was addressed in the previous books, but for some reason her entire personality changes to become a genocidal maniac who starts screaming conspiracies for eighty pages, causing a bloody war, and then she REGRETS it in a single sentence.The crew, at this point, consists of one of the most interesting point of view characters, the irreverent Olli, a human born without many limbs who gets around with the aid of a complex walker; Junior, an Ogdru or enormous fish-like entity living in a tank of water who has uncanny navigational abilities; and Kittering or Kit, a Hannilambra or crab-like creature handling trade for salvage items.
The series started with a rag-tag crew of spacers in an old space tug just getting by, surviving in the aftermath of the 'Architect war', which was really pretty one sided after all in favor of the 'Architects'-- gigantic sentient beings that arose from 'unspace' to transform planets into a macabre art. For reasons unclear even to himself he subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives.
Reading this series is like stumbling across the joy of reading all over again; opening up every possibility. com for further information about both himself and the insect-kinden, together with bonus material including short stories and artwork. Not all is at is seems at the surface, and eventually, an unholy alliance is formed, upsetting the balance of power.
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