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nonsenseofsight 's review for:
Lords of Uncreation
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
I really liked the way Tchaikovsky closed this series. Elegant, warm, epic, and pretty badass scifi.
Space operas like these have a tendency to dial in on the 'hero's journey' or to make galactic things personal. This book.... does not do that. Galactic things remain galactic.
I struggled a bit with this in the first two novels. The character's lack of knowledge about the way the universe worked was frustratingly similar to mine. By book two, things were starting to make a bit of sense. This third and final book nicely pirouetted all that unknowing into knowing (as much as it's possible to know the unknowable) and the narrative clicked into place for me.
Would I recommend this series?
I'm not sure.
Am I glad I read it?
Absolutely.
This book is for the Warhammer crowd. The Cthulhu crowd. The pack of people for whom the howling madness of the unknowable holds some allure. I'm at least tangentially related to those people. I love me some structure and I love me some mystery... and this book does an excellent job of presenting and revealing both.
Do I feel a little cheated that it took 1500+ pages to make sense?
A little bit.
But... It's pleasurable to be held in suspense sometimes and if you are the sort of person who needs the unknowable to exist with the known.... The Final Architecture will be a super fun read.
Space operas like these have a tendency to dial in on the 'hero's journey' or to make galactic things personal. This book.... does not do that. Galactic things remain galactic.
I struggled a bit with this in the first two novels. The character's lack of knowledge about the way the universe worked was frustratingly similar to mine. By book two, things were starting to make a bit of sense. This third and final book nicely pirouetted all that unknowing into knowing (as much as it's possible to know the unknowable) and the narrative clicked into place for me.
Would I recommend this series?
I'm not sure.
Am I glad I read it?
Absolutely.
This book is for the Warhammer crowd. The Cthulhu crowd. The pack of people for whom the howling madness of the unknowable holds some allure. I'm at least tangentially related to those people. I love me some structure and I love me some mystery... and this book does an excellent job of presenting and revealing both.
Do I feel a little cheated that it took 1500+ pages to make sense?
A little bit.
But... It's pleasurable to be held in suspense sometimes and if you are the sort of person who needs the unknowable to exist with the known.... The Final Architecture will be a super fun read.