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A review by theishu
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
5.0
“Smartest evolutionary world-building” - a blurbs says, and it is hard to better describe it. It reads like Arthur C. Clarke, but with detail-rich trajectories filling in the gaps between ‘flash-forwards’ to drastically new story arcs. It successfully convinces you to simultaneously root for opposing sides of a primal conflict.
Amazingly, the story expertly weaves in deeply philosophical what-ifs, social allegories, but manages to simultaneously keep the crosshairs trained on “sci-fi action drama”. Very impressive! I really hope this book becomes popular enough to be green-lit for a high-budget, 7-season epic, while taking care to preserve the writing quality of the source material.
Amazingly, the story expertly weaves in deeply philosophical what-ifs, social allegories, but manages to simultaneously keep the crosshairs trained on “sci-fi action drama”. Very impressive! I really hope this book becomes popular enough to be green-lit for a high-budget, 7-season epic, while taking care to preserve the writing quality of the source material.