01-17-2024, 03:53 PM
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
I'm still undecided about whether I enjoy these books. They are incredibly dense with ideas and concepts and a bit light on story. And Mr. T really likes developing new intelligences from weird species. In the first book it was the spiders. In this book it's the octopi. I'm sure in his mind, Tchaikovsky is clear about how the octopus thinks and communicates but I got lost in the nomenclature.
In this edition, the spiders and humans set off on another decades long journey to find another terraforming expedition that set off from earth. That expedition found two planets. One called, Nod already had life on it and was left alone. Another, called Damascus, became the world to be terraformed. One of the terraformers also was experimenting with the octopi and seeing if he could do for them what was originally done with the spiders. They do give a shout out to author David Brin and his book the Uplift War. Things go wrong on both planets. A thousand years later or so, the spiders and humans arrive to find out what is going and seeing if they can find a solution.
Some of the action was very exciting. Some of it, I had little understanding of what was going on as the different species try to communicate.
I have the third book. I will read it. Then I think I will be done with Mr. T for awhile.
I'm still undecided about whether I enjoy these books. They are incredibly dense with ideas and concepts and a bit light on story. And Mr. T really likes developing new intelligences from weird species. In the first book it was the spiders. In this book it's the octopi. I'm sure in his mind, Tchaikovsky is clear about how the octopus thinks and communicates but I got lost in the nomenclature.
In this edition, the spiders and humans set off on another decades long journey to find another terraforming expedition that set off from earth. That expedition found two planets. One called, Nod already had life on it and was left alone. Another, called Damascus, became the world to be terraformed. One of the terraformers also was experimenting with the octopi and seeing if he could do for them what was originally done with the spiders. They do give a shout out to author David Brin and his book the Uplift War. Things go wrong on both planets. A thousand years later or so, the spiders and humans arrive to find out what is going and seeing if they can find a solution.
Some of the action was very exciting. Some of it, I had little understanding of what was going on as the different species try to communicate.
I have the third book. I will read it. Then I think I will be done with Mr. T for awhile.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm