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Children of Time
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky engages full throttle on the ship's thrusters into space. "To boldly go where no one has gone before," cueing the Star Trek music. In a desperate situation for humanity, Dr. Avrana Kern unearths a plan to unleash a nanovirus on a new planet, spawning a new society of sentient beings. Almost maniacal in her ambition, she comes in contact with a ship of live humans who are looking to settle on her "green" habitable planet of choice. An unimaginable conflict ensues, delivering a masterclass in world-building spanning multiple generations.
Which side am I on? Arachnids or humans? Feeling a warm kinship to my fellow man only further muddled me. The shortcomings of the human mind found the ambitions of the spiders to be more aligned with my own. Further stoking inner turmoil was my flashback to the movie Starship Troopers, as spiders were not to be trusted. There is a pleasant complexity within Tchaikovsky's prose that challenges the reader, but I found it quite successful in holding my attention throughout. New to the genre, I digested his style of writing quite easily.
Oh my! The ending. Whatever my preconceived notions of how I would feel at the end of this book were, they were wrong, to say the least. Subtly weaving thought-provoking text, the author manages to simplify the complex intricacies within human existence. What if we took the time to see all others as equals, no matter race or creed? Would we not live in harmony? A race of spiders, one that naturally invokes a certain phobia among us with their appearance of fur-laden legs and fangs dripping with venomous acidity, awaiting to strike the nearest individual, therefore installing a pre-disposition of angst and loathing towards that which we don't understand. Fear-driven hatred passed down from generation to generation for survival purposes. An interesting conversation, to say the least. One with an abundance of views supporting or debunking the rhetoric, surely.
I endorse this book wholeheartedly. Within its pages, beauty, desperation, and hope exist. A chance to question and learn awaits. A profound read and one I will not soon forget. I am giving this 4.5 out of 5 stars, rounding up to 5 stars. Tremendous!
Tchaikovsky engages full throttle on the ship's thrusters into space. "To boldly go where no one has gone before," cueing the Star Trek music. In a desperate situation for humanity, Dr. Avrana Kern unearths a plan to unleash a nanovirus on a new planet, spawning a new society of sentient beings. Almost maniacal in her ambition, she comes in contact with a ship of live humans who are looking to settle on her "green" habitable planet of choice. An unimaginable conflict ensues, delivering a masterclass in world-building spanning multiple generations.
Which side am I on? Arachnids or humans? Feeling a warm kinship to my fellow man only further muddled me. The shortcomings of the human mind found the ambitions of the spiders to be more aligned with my own. Further stoking inner turmoil was my flashback to the movie Starship Troopers, as spiders were not to be trusted. There is a pleasant complexity within Tchaikovsky's prose that challenges the reader, but I found it quite successful in holding my attention throughout. New to the genre, I digested his style of writing quite easily.
Oh my! The ending. Whatever my preconceived notions of how I would feel at the end of this book were, they were wrong, to say the least. Subtly weaving thought-provoking text, the author manages to simplify the complex intricacies within human existence. What if we took the time to see all others as equals, no matter race or creed? Would we not live in harmony? A race of spiders, one that naturally invokes a certain phobia among us with their appearance of fur-laden legs and fangs dripping with venomous acidity, awaiting to strike the nearest individual, therefore installing a pre-disposition of angst and loathing towards that which we don't understand. Fear-driven hatred passed down from generation to generation for survival purposes. An interesting conversation, to say the least. One with an abundance of views supporting or debunking the rhetoric, surely.
I endorse this book wholeheartedly. Within its pages, beauty, desperation, and hope exist. A chance to question and learn awaits. A profound read and one I will not soon forget. I am giving this 4.5 out of 5 stars, rounding up to 5 stars. Tremendous!