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Jasmine🍁🧡💛 💚💜 💙 🤎 🖤 🤍Jun 20, 2025

This #Summer #Solstice I am grateful I took the time to wrap up work early, grab a lychee soda and soju, and reach my neighbourhood beach at just the right tide.
I am now digging my toes in the sand, searching for interesting shapes in the shells as I let go of weeks of stress.
For just a moment, I can forget all the problems and projects waiting for me.
For a few hours, I have a book about space octopi and interstellar spiders who have outgrown their Humans. It gives me hope. #ChildrenofRuin

Dave Rainsford Feb 18, 2025

Just finished @thestorygraph @bookstodon 4 Stars #childrenofruin Enjoyed this more than the first of the series!

Earthshine --> moved Dec 12, 2024

Coolest Interplanetary Vessel Name:
#ChildrenOfRuin

Profundity of Depth

Requisitioner of Small Things

14.3%

That Part of Wonder that is Mine

14.3%

Shell that Echoes Only

14.3%

Looking at Things From Outside

57.1%

Poll ended at Dec 13, 2024 at 10:50pm.

SmokeInFog Jul 10, 2023

Recently finished _Children of Ruin_, the second book in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series. They use the concept of #uplifting of non-human animals to

1. show how hard it would be to communicate with aliens (as finding common ground for communication with earth born intelligences is still very difficult)

2. take the time to find that common understanding rather than rashly resorting to violence

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40376072-children-of-ruin

#ChildrenOfRuin #book #AdrianTchaikovsky #ChildrenOfTime

Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-w…

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Matthew Martin Apr 23, 2023

Children of Memory was a disappointing book, but had a number of good short stories in it. Had this been a collection of short stories, I think I would have been happier with the final result. The gimmick/writing device was frustrating and came across as magical realism more than science fiction.

Like the movie Paprika, just go ahead and read the plot explainer ahead of time.

#ChildrenOfTime and #ChildrenOfRuin were well worth the high page count.

#ChildrenOfMemory #AdrianTchaikovsky #SciFi

Gus Mar 10, 2023

Just finished #ChildrenOfRuin by #AdrianTchaikovsky! Very good book with a healthy combination of space opera & speculative evolution. A great follow up to #ChildrenOfTime. I'm excited to read the next one when I can get my hands on it!
#Bookstodon

Richard Dec 24, 2022

@demiller @MariNemo and @aptshadow wrote the excellent #ChildrenofRuin for another example of cephalopod intelligence

ThePsion5 Dec 1, 2022

Rereading #ChildrenOfRuin by @aptshadow and completely forgot about some great horror moments about halfway through the book. (spoilers, obviously)

#ChildrenOfTime #AdrianTchaikovsky #books #reading

🚀 🧠 yerald Nov 28, 2022

It’s week #48 of 2022 & I’m currently reading:

- #FromUnseenFire by #CassMorris
- #TheWayOfTheShield by @mrmaresca
- #ChildrenOfRuin by @aptshadow
- #AStrangeAndStubbornEndurance by #FozMeadows

#Bookstodon #CurrentlyReading #AmReading #SciFi #Fantasy #SpeculativeFiction #Romance #Maradaine #AvenCycle #ChildrenOfTime #MarshalRyanMaresca #AdrianTchaikovsky #tbr

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The Breadmonkey Nov 11, 2022

I'm also Extremely Into #ScienceFiction #SciFi #HardSciFi #HardScienceFiction #Books

During lockdown I rediscovered my love of reading - fortunately stumbling across #JohnScalzi #OldMansWar, which I loved and reminded a bit me of the #JoeHaldeman #ForeverWar series. Which led me to the #Bobiverse books by #DennisETaylor which I LOVED. I'm looking for suggestions. Currently on #TermsOfEnlistment by #MarkoKloos & enjoying so far. I like #AndyWeir, #PoulAnderson and I'll always read anything in the #Dune universe. Really liked #ChildrenOfTime, #ChildrenOfRuin & #DogsOfWar / #BearHead by #AdrianTchaikovsky. Enjoyed #TheThreeBodyProblem, but The Dark Forest has left me in the weeds a bit (will return for another go at some point). Genuinely looking for suggestions!