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A review by quail
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
5.0
r/fantasy bingo 2024-25: Survival
Hard Mode: No superviruses or pandemics. (DONE)
This book was completely unexpected for me!! I really really enjoyed it. Absolutely did not expect one half of the POV to be from an uplifted race of jumping spiders hit by the sapience-growing virus, but I had no complaints. The POV for Portia was refreshingly inhuman and I absolutely adored the building of spider civilisation and how the POV followed through the generations of Portias and Biancas and their brethren. From the humanity perspective, I really liked the main POV character (an old man historian, who could have guessed he'd be Quail Bait huh!!) and I enjoyed the lowkey romance with him and the engineer as he went in and out of stasis over the years. It was a really fun look at how life could be on an ark spaceship like that, and especially with the extra spanner in the works of the satellite above the Portias' planet! I don't think I'll read the sequels cos I heard they're about different species, but really enjoyed this - I nearly replaced it cos I'd heard some negative things on meme, so I'm glad I stuck with it in the end.
Hard Mode: No superviruses or pandemics. (DONE)
This book was completely unexpected for me!! I really really enjoyed it. Absolutely did not expect one half of the POV to be from an uplifted race of jumping spiders hit by the sapience-growing virus, but I had no complaints. The POV for Portia was refreshingly inhuman and I absolutely adored the building of spider civilisation and how the POV followed through the generations of Portias and Biancas and their brethren. From the humanity perspective, I really liked the main POV character (an old man historian, who could have guessed he'd be Quail Bait huh!!) and I enjoyed the lowkey romance with him and the engineer as he went in and out of stasis over the years. It was a really fun look at how life could be on an ark spaceship like that, and especially with the extra spanner in the works of the satellite above the Portias' planet! I don't think I'll read the sequels cos I heard they're about different species, but really enjoyed this - I nearly replaced it cos I'd heard some negative things on meme, so I'm glad I stuck with it in the end.