The Doors of Eden

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To win the arms race of this Cambrian is to have the strongest shell. It is to be hauled up from the sediment by the the anomalocarids' fearsome arms, ground between their spines, gnamed at by their toothed ring of a mouth, then abandoned for flimsier prey. From such a forge, here is what will fight its way to dominance... When at last they take to the land, their shells fend off the killer radiation of the sun and their respiratory surfaces hold enough water for brief seaside strolls. Their articulated legs are initially only strong enough to drag their jointed bellies in the sand, but that will change." Tchaikovsky has regularly expressed his intention regarding the Shadows of the Apt series not to make science better than magic, [16] or vice versa: "This is another key element, really: the magic/tech divide is a concept that turns up here and there in fantasy, but usually one side is good (mostly magic) and the other (dirty polluting tech) is bad. With the world of the kinden, they’re basically both as bad as the people who use them, whether it’s blood sacrifice in a Mantis-kinden grove or the Wasp Empire’s city-levelling weaponry." [17] Awards and nominations [ edit ] It is noteworthy, however, that on top of all of this the author also managed to include his typical examination of different human psychologies (mostly thanks to Rov). No matter where you look, the story is deep and rich. Well damn. I just accidentally deleted my review and I was on a real roll. Damn iPad! Damn pinky finger!

Special thanks to my Patrons on Patreon for giving me extra support towards my passion for reading and reviewing! Anyways, as I had been saying, The Doors of Eden had some elements of both Children of Time and Children of Ruin that I loved. Tchaikovsky has a way of extrapolating a species evolution based on some of its chief characteristics and manages to create a whole world from those extrapolations in a way that is highly engaging. In tDoE, he does this for several worlds, creating diverging species, timelines and worlds in a way that is astonishingly imaginative. The whole story is like a piece of wool art on a loom, with many different strands brought together to create a cohesive whole. Amazing. Tomio, Jay (26 September 2008). "Bug Out with Adrian Tchaikovsky Before Children of Time". Nekoplz . Retrieved 11 March 2010.The fabric between multiple earths is weakening allowing multiple portals to open between various timelines. Four years before the events in the story take place two young women, Lee and Mal, cryptid, or monster, hunters, went out searching for a mysterious ‘bird-man’ who had been caught on a farmer’s CCT cameras. Unfortunately not only did they find them, Mal disappeared. And Nazi Jeff Bezos is another example. In Children of Time all of the “evil characters” had understandable motivations. They had a goal, and were willing to do what it took. But NJB’s felt entirely dependent on what the author need from a bad guy. In the beginning he’s portrayed as ruthless in trying to achieve his ambitious and selfish aims. He has no loyalty or ideology outside of power, and is willing to sacrifice anyone and anything to do so. Later he talks about pursuing immortality with help from the rats, and it implies he wants this unchanging dystopian hellscape where he is eternally in charge. That makes sense. But then at the end of the book his ambition changes to saving England and transplanting it to some untouched Eden so he can plunder there? And he’s willing to sacrifice the vast majority of human technology, progress & luxuries to rule over the rubble and rule as a petty fascist? AND he’s willing to abandon his goal of immortality (since he abandoned all non humans and most of their research) to be a petty Oswald Moseley for a couple decades? This makes no sense. He was always willing to use those people, and certainly seemed to have some sympathy for them but he was using them like he used everyone else. The motivations are just so inconsistent, and seemed to change depending on what a super bad evil bad man would do at the moment. By the end he has as much depth as a Captain Planet villain. Tons of supporting characters make for memorable clashes and encounters with each of our PoV characters – the absolute stand-outs are Sabreur’s boss, Leslie Hind, who is a cold-blooded badass, and Dr. Rat, a mad genius of the most entertaining variety. You’are quiet, now, subdued by what we’ve shown you. How many times can you watch the world end, after all, even if it’s not your world? hrpanjwani on Reading The Wheel of Time: Taim Tells Lies and Rand Shares His Plan in Winter’s Heart (Part 3) 5 seconds ago

Also it just hit me that it really must be nice to be an established popular author cos how did they even manage to market this book as a good one? Must be nice. While Tchaikovsky is spinning this mystery for us, he’s also supplying us with vital information in the form of interludes called excerpts from the book Other Edens: Speculative Evolution and Intelligence by Professor. Ruth Emerson. In these excerpts Tchaikovsky lays out evolution scenarios on various parallel worlds which allowed for different dominant species to develop. On one world are the bird people, another neanderthal, another large rodents and so on.There's also dinosaurs, evolution, biology and more. The interludes of the book tell us about all sorts of changing cultures and creatures throughout the ages, and eventually we see how these research interludes connect into the overall plot too.