Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Mar. 15th, 2018 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
asakiyumeI finished this and was deeply satisfied by it. I was in tears at the end! What a creative, compassionate well-constructed story.
What I really want to do is gloat about figuring out how the story would end, but I can't do that without spoiling it for people who are reading it or who might want to read it, and I have to say, I really enjoyed figuring things out on my own, and I want other people to have that pleasure too. So here's a link to my Goodreads review, which hides talk about the outcome under a spoiler cut.
It's really all that science fiction can be--this is why I like science fiction!
... And from a craft perspective, I really liked how Tchaikovsky seeded the story so that what bore fruit made sense: nothing happened that wasn't set up. Lots of webs of connection ;-)
I had quibbles about some things--at times some of the human characters' behavior was a bit bewildering to me--but those just fade away before my pleasure in the overall book.
What I really want to do is gloat about figuring out how the story would end, but I can't do that without spoiling it for people who are reading it or who might want to read it, and I have to say, I really enjoyed figuring things out on my own, and I want other people to have that pleasure too. So here's a link to my Goodreads review, which hides talk about the outcome under a spoiler cut.
It's really all that science fiction can be--this is why I like science fiction!
... And from a craft perspective, I really liked how Tchaikovsky seeded the story so that what bore fruit made sense: nothing happened that wasn't set up. Lots of webs of connection ;-)
I had quibbles about some things--at times some of the human characters' behavior was a bit bewildering to me--but those just fade away before my pleasure in the overall book.
