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21% complete! maybe a weirdo has read 6 of 28 books.
Una carrera por la supervivencia entre las estrellas.
Los últimos restos de la especie humana dejan una Tierra moribunda, ansiosos …
Una carrera por la supervivencia entre las estrellas.
Los últimos restos de la especie humana …
The Book starts out with the human interstellar empire at its peak, and the greatest human scientist, Dr. Avrana Kern, is watching the disastrous end of an experiment to terraform a planet that is several light years away from earth, and try to recreate human evolution there.
Unknown to her, a catastrophe is about to befall the empire she knows, plunging humanity into the dark ages and relegating her experiment to mere legend.
After they are able to salvage a ship from the ruins of the old world, the last colony of humans are on their way to that same planet, seeking a place to set down roots and grow once more.
This sets up a scenario where you are watching an alien invasion from the point of view of the aliens (the human beings). I found myself, very much like Dr. Kern, rooting against that ship that represented the …
The Book starts out with the human interstellar empire at its peak, and the greatest human scientist, Dr. Avrana Kern, is watching the disastrous end of an experiment to terraform a planet that is several light years away from earth, and try to recreate human evolution there.
Unknown to her, a catastrophe is about to befall the empire she knows, plunging humanity into the dark ages and relegating her experiment to mere legend.
After they are able to salvage a ship from the ruins of the old world, the last colony of humans are on their way to that same planet, seeking a place to set down roots and grow once more.
This sets up a scenario where you are watching an alien invasion from the point of view of the aliens (the human beings). I found myself, very much like Dr. Kern, rooting against that ship that represented the last of our kind, hoping against hope that humanity goes extinct.
If you want a new point of view on evolution, intelligence, empathy and what it means to be human, Tchaikovsky's space epic is the book for you. I found myself wiping a few tears from my eyes at the climax of the book, and while it's not a page turner, it is a poignant, thoughtful story
The descent of the last society on earth into its own destruction, told as the story of a prisoner in its last prison.
I loved reading this and couldn’t wait to read more by Adrian Tchaikovsky
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke …
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke …
While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the …
In this story, you get a slice of life of three generations of 3 intertwined families, in a city in what was to become Tanzania. As a fellow African, I relate strongly to a lot of the themes explored here, and this book definitely stands out in African literature.
(It's interesting that while I was reading this I was also discovering Amapiano, which is a genre of music that is really popular in Africa right now, Here's a spotify playlist)
In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic saga of the colonization of …
In the Nebula Award winning Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson began his critically acclaimed epic …
So this book is representative of the series as a whole to me. The characters are great, the scifi is great, the politics are great, but only if you enjoy all those, because it turns into a slog really quick.
Man I fucking loved this, although it went a bit slw a lot of the time
