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I admit that I was afraid that this might not have turned out as good ... as brilliant ... as the Children of Time, but now that I've read it, I'm happy to say that I'm very happy indeed.We left our spider/human crew off to explore new worlds and peoples and guess what they found? A new world and multiple alien species. :) We have all the goodness of Dr. Kern, her ants, the Portias, and the human crew stumbling face first into a free-for-all (or close enough), reacting very badly to the news tha...
Not quite as good as Children of Time but only because that one had the advantage of surprise. Children of Ruin is a little more predictable because it takes us back into the world of terra forming, just on a different planet with a different species.We join Portia, Bianca, Kern et al on a mission to explore the stars, plus there is a separate timeline introducing a planet being developed by humans which features intelligent (very) octopi. And then we meet another life form altogether and things...
Timed out at page 203. To be continued.Thoughts: The narrative proved more disjointed than the first; there's a dual story going on with the upgraded humans from the first book, and a team of exploratory scientists who think they might be the last people in their next of the galaxy. It was odd to realize that these were not only separate corners of the universe, but separate timelines.
Not as good as the first book.(How many times has that sentence been written here?)So, our spider race and Humans from the last book are now out exploring space like the Star Trek gang and they come across a race of octopuses/octopi... whatever.. There is also some other, very dangerous, alien around and basically it's mayhem from the start of this meeting. The octos communicate very differently than the spiders or humans, and the dangerous aliens are looking to kill everything because it's an "...
4.5*Loved it, but it didn’t blow my mind the way Children of Time did. Something about cephalopods being so hard to understand and communicate with. I think that continuous frustration coloured the mood of the book. (Here is the sentence I’d never thought I would say, but) Spiders are very reasonable and cuddly and easy to get along with in comparison.There is another side of the story, I’d call it a horror side. The less you know about it the better. That one is brilliant! I’d give it 6* stars
Genuinely, I may have enjoyed this even more than Children of Time (a book I loved so much I made a whole podcast about it - see anchor.fm/time-share). Without going into any spoilers, I will just say:- All my favorite elements of the first book are here, but still such a fresh variation.- Just as many twists and turns and unexpected plot lines. I do not know how he does it. - The answer to any question you probably have about the sequel is "yes". - Incredibly satisfying in every way. Please rea...
Somehow this book morphs from sf, to a full-on horror novel with a monster so profoundly terrifying you root for the giant sentient spiders and scream at a knock on the door, to one of the most inspirational uplifting things I've read in ages, and it all makes thematic, plot, and emotional sense throughout. Not quite sure how Tchaikovsky pulled off that level of tone-switching so smoothly but it's masterful. A tremendous book, definitely best read as a pair with Children of Time. This is what I
“We are going on an adventure.”Octopodes meet spiders sounds almost like a very bad branch of monsterotica. Especially that there is an odd human added here and there to spice up things.Before you get all excited: In order to fully appreciate this orgy of imagination you really need to read the prequel. Otherwise, the Children of Ruin with all the glory of overall setting, world building, backstories and more or less obscure references to people and events will be half as interesting and even le...
Children of Ruin is a great novel but it is complex.It is not the good kind of complex. It is the bad kind of complex.It is the kind of complex that is long, exhaustive and sometimes boring.
Humans and Portiids agree on these things. Now, after enough time to reflect, she wonders if the octopuses are not happier: free to feel, free to wave a commanding tentacle at the cosmos and demand that it open for them like a clam.As a follow-up to ‘Children of Time’ – I would hesitate to use the word ‘sequel’ – ‘Children of Ruin’ is both less and more than its predecessor. Less, because I just did not ‘get’ the octopuses (I had to look up that grammar rule that firmly reminds us that the plura...
Space. The final frontier. These are the ongoing adventures of the space spiders! Yay!This is the sequel to The Children of Time in which we followed some humans escaping the war on Earth and searching for a potential new habitat for the human race. They found a suitable planet but then there was an accident resulting in a virus on board the human vessel landing on said planet and infecting the local population of arachnids - who subsequently became much more intelligent and therefore advanced f...
