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Started reading the first book about a year ago, and quickly bought the second and third. Very well-written and interesting characters, a somewhat unique story with some "Humanity, fuck yeah!" elements. Either way, highly recommended series of books for those who enjoy science fiction.
uplock
I'll have to check it out, his Shadows of the Apt series was absolutely fucking amazing
JustinWasHere
Perhaps his best work. One of my favorite series. It's really well done and even years after reading, I think about the characters.
labirmane
A big fan of Tchaikovsky. I have read and loved and re-read and forced others to read just about everything he's done... and somehow I just couldn't get into this series.
bripi
Seconding this recommendation! A terrific series, and currently reading the 3rd to much delight.
VodkaReindeer
Writer needs to hire some new cover artists because I just read the author and assumed this was a post about the Children of Time trilogy (https://www.goodreads.com/series/247630-children-of-time).
zafner
Thanks
ornamentaal
Children of Time!
Nanananahatman
It's good, but I really prefer his "children of time" series
ComicSansHumor
Honestly, I didn't particularly love it. It's conceptually neat and I liked the ending, but it really didn't do it for me. I never got particularly attached to the main characters.
VinnyVeritas
Upvote book & movie recommendations. Always
Winterfairy23
LOVED "Children of Time" and the sequals
GrumpyClimber
I read his book new Alien Clay, just didn't get it.
PapaRHG
Great series. Love it when some good space opera makes it's way up here.
LitchLitch
I read the first book, it was pretty good, but I never got around to the second. Which, in my world, meant it was ok, nothing bad but it didn't hook me.
Tchaikovsky is kind of weird I didn't discover him until last year or possibly the year before but he's done tons of novels. I am usually up on the SciFi things but he seemed to come out of nowhere, I suspect because he's British.
His writing strikes me as British, reminds me a bit of Aldiss or to a lesser degree Banks (who is actually a Scot)
DeepVeinZombosis
I felt this series had too strong of a "I dont wanna play with your anymore" feeling, as each book just skipped to the next strange "engineered animal in space" and kinda dropped the last ones.
jj999124
I just finished listening to the bobiverse books so I'm a bit cooked on sci-fi atm but definitely adding it to the wishlist
talifey
It's a decent series, but Cytonic is an easier and more fun read with such a similar storyline in my opinion.
WhiteKnighted
I'm reading his Shadows of the Apt series right now, big fan!
whothehellelseusesTingjidasausername
Totally an underrated series, loved it
Seanspeed
They're on my wishlist since I really liked the Children of Time books, but I've got SO MUCH to read already, it'll probably be a good while before I get around to it and starting another trilogy that'll take me a month or two to get through.
Seanspeed
Oh I just checked and I actually already have the first book! lol Must have bought it as an impulse buy at some point and not remembered.
zer0vector
This is the "only certain people can navigate light speed and also there's giant planet sized monsters that destroy everything"
ali4z
So is it warhammer 40k or nah?
JustinWasHere
There's a but more to it than that, but yeah.
Sullivanish
I read them the same year I read the Sanderson (originally...) Skyward books, which weirdly *also* fit that description. But in a much more YA (bordering on MG ?) kind of way.
phuzz00
Most of Tchaikovsky's stuff is great, and he seems to be knocking out at least a couple of books a year. His short story/novella "Ogres" was the most impactful for me. As a scifi fan you might guess where the plot is going halfway through, but *it's even worse* than you were imagining, and worryingly plausible ('rich people are fucks' is a theme in a lot of his work)
Karma1970
This is my digital library of ebooks and audiobooks. I also have a few hundred physical books (mostly hardcover).
KHman
Impressive!. But r u still rocking a Win7 machine?
thatwoodguy
It's a few authors there like McCaffrey Niven Frank Herbert and Asimov. All those ones except Asimov I have a complete set of their writings. Asimov will never happen cuz I don't have enough room
WoodHandle
Nice!
frissonfriction
install calibre on that shit, STAT!
Karma1970
I use SumatraPDF, it can read my epubs and a lot of the books are in PDF form.
quagga1928
Children of Time series is also amazing.
bripi
except for the 3rd book, definitely agree.
suneloon
The best thing I have read from Adrian Tchaikovskys hand
GuitarsAndCodeAndRage
I recently picked up the first book in that series, and am looking forward to reading it!
raftus
First book was good. The other 2 not so much. The Architects series was much better.
Nykidemus
I got the second one for christmas, it's just as good as the first.
ickyickywoopwoo
I have read service model and cage of souls, but have been hesitant to get into these because I prefer not to do multi book stories. Worth it? Also, is the third definitively the last or is it open?
Sullivanish
As I recall, it felt pretty end-y, but you never know. As for how worth it they are... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Hard to say. I liked them, but didn't *looove* them. Solid B books. Tchaikovsky can be a little stiff for my tastes - closest analogue that springs to mind is Kim Stanley Robinson - but these aren't him at his stiffest.
CapnAndy
Good books! I'm on the third one right now. No HFY elements I've noticed, which is good IMO, because that's lazy writing 99 times out of 10.
ConfederacyOfDunces
Hfy?
FhakThard
Is there an audiobook and if yes is the narrator good?
TufGnarl
There is an audiobook, narrated by Sophie Aldred. I didn’t recognize any books Sophie reads, but there’s quite a lot in her catalogue. About 4.5/5 stars on audible.
May give this a whirl.
Damastes
Sophie Aldred? Ace ;)
FhakThard
Thanks!
FrogBotherer
I'll add my endorsement to this too, loved it.
TacoPoweredHelicopter
Worth the purchase? It's not on Kindle unlimited so would buy it on Google books or Kindle.
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FrogBotherer
I actually experienced it through Audible, Sophie Aldred's performance was great.
bripi
Well worth it!
Sullivanish
Yeah, these are wild. Not "Hyper-Intelligent Giant Tarantulas" wild, but still pretty wild.
AHornyRhino
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persondude27
I read this series with my dad, a relatively conservative nerd. He was conclusion was: "The author would be a lot of fun to smoke weed with."
(It was pretty fun. Not 'The Expanse', which will forever be my gold standard, but still a lot of fun.)
Karma1970
Nykidemus
Huh. I always imagine them grey.
Karma1970
I always imaged them with some color marking on them, similar to Jumping Spiders.
funone77
Excuse me, are there actually books about hyper intelligent tarantulas ?
TheRealFireFrenzy
"I did not give that spider superhuman intelligence", the 0th/prequel book to the GLORY that is the "please dont tell my parents" series (which is some of the best shit i've read this decade) By Richard Roberts
WhatAreYouTalkingAboutEh
yeah, awesome ones, the Children of Time series by the same author
JustinWasHere
Not technically tarantulas, but a specific type of Jumping Spider. In my house, all jumping sides are named Portia and Fabian because of these books. Actually changed the way I think about spiders in general, which is pretty amazing. Children of Time by Adrian tchaikovsky. Excellent books. Highly recommend
mardukkur
In addition to Children of Time you also have Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky, a loose prequel to A Fire Upon the Deep which was about Weasel-dog gestalt intelligent group minds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness">_the_Sky">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep
BananaForScaIe
Sawyer has one I'm sure, set in Toronto.
funone77
Thanks. This sci-fi day has been a boon for literary reference.
mardukkur
A Fire Upon the Deep (not the spider one) is one of my all time faves. They are both Hugo winners.
Theory89
Fire is also part of the sci-fi masterworks collection. It's a brilliant collection put together by Orion, and well worth checking out if looking for inspiration.
JustinWasHere
Imo, Deepness is SO MUCH better than A Fire. Just a fantastic book.
mardukkur
I liked Fire better but they both won Hugos for a reason.
JustinWasHere
Fair point. I actually never read the third one. You?
Sullivanish
Yeah, that dude's first book: Children of Time. And, I would assume, its sequels, but I've only read the first one.
Nykidemus
Children of Ruin is about hyperintelligent giant space octopi.
MightyRacc00n
And they're so well written that my arachnophobic ass was actively rooting for the spiders by the end.
LitchLitch
CoT wasn't his first book, it was before these but he did another series (Shadows of Apt).
Sullivanish
Right. I knew that. I either read or DNfd the first one of those. I can't remember.
funone77
Thanks! I'm now sampling something of Tchaikovsky called "And put away childish things." now to see if I like the author.
mardukkur
I discovered him this year or maybe last year and I've liked almost everything he's written.
Armanace
I liked that book, but Tchaikovsky does a lot better with his longer books
Sullivanish
Sorry, I just double checked and apparently I was misremembering: they're mean to be giant, hyper-intelligent jumping spiders. For some reason, I pictured them as tarantulas.
AlmostCertainlyNotPickles
Yeah, portiids. And I came here to recommend the Children of Time series too. The spiders make a comeback in the next two books, but the second one is about octopodes and a hyper intelligent alien disease, and the third one is about.....well it's about a lot. An abandoned old Earth colony on the brink of survival which seems to also be caught in some kind of time warp.
FrogBotherer
I have Children of Ruin on my to read pile, the first one was quite fun.
Shewy92
The sequel is about smart squids that get attacked by those spiders I believe.
mdizzly
nah they both get attacked by something else
VodkaReindeer
No no, in the sequel the hyper intelligent spiders go visit the hyper intelligent octopuses who attack them because they've been attacked by hyper intelligent bacteria so they're a little paranoid.
b1ackfa1c0n
And the third book is about hyper intelligent Corvids. I was told they behave like your standard asshole Bluejays, but I've personally only made it about 10% into the book so far.
SofaH3ro
The corvids are chill, they're out there doing their best. 3rd book is a mind fuck tho.