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markchapman 's review for:
Lords of Uncreation
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
overall I enjoyed this trilogy. The author's worldbuilding remains very strong and there are some interesting alien cultures and ideas. The mysterious and god-like Essiel Barnacles and the crab like Hannilambri who work for a life to retire, fertilise some eggs before changing sex and laying their own with all their accumulated wealth as a starter fund are highlights. However overall there was a bit of rushed writing that could have used more editing. Also the main action is the battle against the architects and this all takes place within unspace. We are regularly given the action through Idris in unspace and told that he is experiencing deep revelations...but what are they? After a bit this started feeling like a fantasy novel hiding as a sci-fi novel with overall a magical or mystical reality driving the action rather than there being an attempt to create a scientific reality and that felt a little less satisfying as a result. Enjoyable though.