Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Lincolnshire, The United Kingdom
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April 2012
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
59 editions
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2015
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Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
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4 editions
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2019
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Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
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30 editions
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2021
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Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
25 editions
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2022
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Elder Race
3 editions
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2021
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Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, #2)
20 editions
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2022
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Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)
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2017
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Lords of Uncreation (The Final Architecture, #3)
16 editions
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2023
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Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt, #1)
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2008
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Cage of Souls
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2019
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“That is the problem with ignorance. You can never truly know the extent of what you are ignorant about.”
― Children of Time
― Children of Time
“Life is not perfect, individuals will always be flawed, but empathy – the sheer inability to see those around them as anything other than people too – conquers all, in the end.”
― Children of Time
― Children of Time
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*As always I recommend if any look good to you, go ahead and put them on hold at the library if available.*
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
2014, 518 pages, 4.15 stars
$7.99 Kindle, $7.13 and up used, at library
2014, 518 pages, 4.15 stars
$7.99 Kindle, $7.13 and up used, at library
"Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space-and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe-in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star.
Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain.
Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary’s got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs—an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the universe."
• Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
2015, 600 pages, 4.29 stars
$9.99 Kindle, $9.17 and up used, at library
2015, 600 pages, 4.29 stars
$9.99 Kindle, $9.17 and up used, at library
"A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers?
WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age—a world terraformed and prepared for human life.
But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.
Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?"
• The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi
2017, 336 pages, 4.11 stars
$9.99 Kindle, cheap used, at library
2017, 336 pages, 4.11 stars
$9.99 Kindle, cheap used, at library
"The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Redshirts and Old Man's War.
Our universe is ruled by physics and faster than light travel is not possible -- until the discovery of The Flow, an extra-dimensional field we can access at certain points in space-time that transport us to other worlds, around other stars.
Humanity flows away from Earth, into space, and in time forgets our home world and creates a new empire, the Interdependency, whose ethos requires that no one human outpost can survive without the others. It’s a hedge against interstellar war -- and a system of control for the rulers of the empire.
The Flow is eternal -- but it is not static. Just as a river changes course, The Flow changes as well, cutting off worlds from the rest of humanity. When it’s discovered that The Flow is moving, possibly cutting off all human worlds from faster than light travel forever, three individuals -- a scientist, a starship captain and the Empress of the Interdependency -- are in a race against time to discover what, if anything, can be salvaged from an interstellar empire on the brink of collapse. "
• A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
1992, 613 pages, 4.14 stars
$9.99 Kindle, cheap used, at library
1992, 613 pages, 4.14 stars
$9.99 Kindle, cheap used, at library
"A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.
Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.
Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization. "
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
1985, 324 pages, 4.3 stars
$7.99 Kindle, cheap used, at library
1985, 324 pages, 4.3 stars
$7.99 Kindle, cheap used, at library
"Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins. He will grow up fast.
But Ender is not the only result of the experiment. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway almost as long. Ender's two older siblings, Peter and Valentine, are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. While Peter was too uncontrollably violent, Valentine very nearly lacks the capability for violence altogether. Neither was found suitable for the military's purpose. But they are driven by their jealousy of Ender, and by their inbred drive for power. Peter seeks to control the political process, to become a ruler. Valentine's abilities turn more toward the subtle control of the beliefs of commoner and elite alike, through powerfully convincing essays. Hiding their youth and identities behind the anonymity of the computer networks, these two begin working together to shape the destiny of Earth-an Earth that has no future at all if their brother Ender fails."
• The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
2018, 431 pages, 4.02 stars
$9.99 Kindle, $8.16 and up used, at library
"On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space, and requires a much larger share of humanity to take part in the process.
Elma York’s experience as a WASP pilot and mathematician earns her a place in the International Aerospace Coalition’s attempts to put man on the moon, as a calculator. But with so many skilled and experienced women pilots and scientists involved with the program, it doesn’t take long before Elma begins to wonder why they can’t go into space, too.
Elma’s drive to become the first Lady Astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her."
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“You're not like other Wasps."
"Aren't I?" Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. "No doubt you've killed my kinsmen by the score."
"A few," Salma allowed.
"Well, next time you shed my kinden's blood, think on this: we are but men, no less nor more than other men, and we strive and feel joy and fail as men have always done. We live in the darkness that is the birthright of us all, that of hurt and ignorance, only sometimes... sometimes there comes the sun." He let the bowl fall from his fingers to the floor, watching it spin and settle, unbroken.”
― Empire in Black and Gold
"Aren't I?" Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. "No doubt you've killed my kinsmen by the score."
"A few," Salma allowed.
"Well, next time you shed my kinden's blood, think on this: we are but men, no less nor more than other men, and we strive and feel joy and fail as men have always done. We live in the darkness that is the birthright of us all, that of hurt and ignorance, only sometimes... sometimes there comes the sun." He let the bowl fall from his fingers to the floor, watching it spin and settle, unbroken.”
― Empire in Black and Gold
“And then it dropped lower, and her eyes caught it in all its pale majesty. It was a moth, no more, no less, but as it circled down towards them she saw that its furry body was larger than that of a horse, its wingspan awesome, each wing as long as six men laid end to end. It had a small head, eyes glittering amongst the glossy fur behind frond-like antennae that extended forward in delicate furls. As it landed, the sweep of its wings extinguished most of their little fires.”
― Empire in Black and Gold
― Empire in Black and Gold
“A bandit, a man-hunter, a lawbreaker, a bow for hire. I never wanted any grand cause. If it looks like I'm fighting tyrants, it's only because the world's so damned full of them that you can't draw a sword without crossing some of their laws. Easy as easy, it is, to become an outlaw.”
― Heirs of the Blade
― Heirs of the Blade
“I was young at Myna, that first time. When had the change come? He had retreated to here, to Collegium, to spin his awkward webs of intrigue and to lecture at the College. Then, years on, the call had come for action. He had gone to that chest in which he stored his youth and found that, like some armour long unworn, it had rusted away.
He tried to tell himself that this was not like the grumbling of any other man who finds the prime of his life behind him. I need my youth and strength now, as never before. A shame that one could no husband time until one needed it. All his thoughts rang hollow. He was past his best and that was the thorn that would not be plucked from his side. He was no different from any tradesman or scholar who, during a life of indolence, pauses partway up the stairs to think, This was not so hard, yesterday.”
― Dragonfly Falling
He tried to tell himself that this was not like the grumbling of any other man who finds the prime of his life behind him. I need my youth and strength now, as never before. A shame that one could no husband time until one needed it. All his thoughts rang hollow. He was past his best and that was the thorn that would not be plucked from his side. He was no different from any tradesman or scholar who, during a life of indolence, pauses partway up the stairs to think, This was not so hard, yesterday.”
― Dragonfly Falling
“Ah, but it is an interesting thing, that these things can so seldom be proved. If I were to perform some piece of, hrmf, magic for you, here in this room, you would claim a thousand ways it could have been done. Indeed, those ways might be exceedingly unlikely, but you would cling to them rather than accept the, mmn, the chance that magic, the eternal inexplicable, might be the true agent, and if you were strong enough in yourself, unafraid, unthreatened, here in your own chambers, well perhaps there would be no magic worked at all. It is a subjective force, you see, whereas the physical laws of the artificers are objective. A gear-train will turn without faith, but magic may not. And so, when your people demand, mmn, proof, there is none, but when you have forgotten and dismissed it, then magic creeps back into the gaps where you do not look for it.”
― Dragonfly Falling
― Dragonfly Falling
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I don't know how it would be with postage etc. or whether you're able to use the UK amazon (.co.uk) but you can get my books from Forbidden Planet in London (http://forbiddenplanet.com/)or from Tor itself.
Ruby wrote: "Can you recommend a reliable site where I can buy the UK version of the books not available in the US without spending an arm and a leg?
Thank you for creating a terrific series and keep up the gr..."
Ruby wrote: "Can you recommend a reliable site where I can buy the UK version of the books not available in the US without spending an arm and a leg?
Thank you for creating a terrific series and keep up the gr..."
Can you recommend a reliable site where I can buy the UK version of the books not available in the US without spending an arm and a leg?
Thank you for creating a terrific series and keep up the great work!
Thank you for creating a terrific series and keep up the great work!
Heirs of the Blade is available as a trade paperback in the UK (it was the first). Sea Watch should get a reissue as a larger size paperback, but not the full size trade version.
Derrick wrote: "Thanks.
And that explains why Sea Watch is not for sale on their website.
I hope they pick them up..."
To be honest, I would recommend snagging a copy of the UK version (Sea Watch and Heirs) if you can. I can't really go into it, but right now there are issues. If this situation looks like it's going to be resolved I will make it known on the blog as soon as I can.
And that explains why Sea Watch is not for sale on their website.
I hope they pick them up..."
To be honest, I would recommend snagging a copy of the UK version (Sea Watch and Heirs) if you can. I can't really go into it, but right now there are issues. If this situation looks like it's going to be resolved I will make it known on the blog as soon as I can.
Thank you so much for being my friend here on Goodreads. I am a huge fan of the spectacular 'Shadows of the Apt' series and continue to read and enjoy your work.
Kind Regards
Lucinda x