Just finished #childrenofmemory, the third book in the #childrenoftime series.
The books in the series are all different in their own way, yet connected in theme and world. And while I really liked the first two, this one just clicked way more for me, probably as it centered on a more emotional, human story. The end was a proper rollercoaster for me, and while the resolution was entirely expected, there were enough layers which just hit in the right way for me.
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I bought Children of Memory earlier this year and have just re-read the first two books in the Children of Time series then this one. Yeah, I liked Children of Memory a lot. Even if the philosophy of what it is to be human or even sentient felt layered on at times there was a lovely, dark thread to the confused, fractured lifetimes on the planet and a fair chunk of emotional anguish at some of the revelations.
My neighborhood is cosplaying "Children of Memory"* - the grass is dying, the trees are losing all their needles, the other trees are dropping leaves like it was autumn.
* It is a story about settlers on another planet & the ecosystem fails to stabilize & they all starve to death.
https://www.amazon.com/Children-Memory-Adrian-Tchaikovsky/dp/0316466409
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.
Finally found some time to finish "Children of Memory", Adrian Tchaikovsky's latest "Children of Book" and I loved it.
I had no idea where it was going until the last act and then it just all fell into fantastic big-space-opera place.
I'm reading 'Children of Memory' by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
If you're a fan of #scifi and like the sound of hyper evolved spiders and octopuses this one is for you.. Although start at the beginning of the trilogy with Children Of Time
#ChildrenOfTime #ChildrenOfMemory
It's fantastic stuff
"because she lived within a civilisation that had access to Octopus -conceived technology..."
Sentences which would likely be unusual in most novels, but seem perfectly normal in one by @aptshadow
#books #AmReading #LunchtimeReading #ChildrenOfMemory #AdrianTchaikovsky #livres #ScienceFiction
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