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The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.0

I believe Adrian Tchaikovsky has a sci-fi specialty and, with this book, he went a little crazy with it. I believe he did it best with Children of Time, zooming in and spending all of the time with one, specific species and helped me understand everything about the species and the society it created. This one's more concise and yet it also goes all over the place. For Doors of Eden, I would've appreciated drilling down further on these new subjects to learn everything. I'd rather have a master of two or three subjects rather than a jack of all trades.

Despite any criticism I offer, I deeply appreciate Tchaikovsky's brand of imaginative and vivid sci-fi, and I'll be on the lookout for more in the coming years.