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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Just started reading Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time. Even though he's probably best known for his ten-part "Shadows of the Apt" fantasy series, I've chosen to reward him for writing this great-big honking stand-alone generational scifi tale of uplift and exploration instead. 
Winner of the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award, by the way. |
Huge in scope (and scale). Ambitious, thought-provoking and fairly compelling. I love a "Big Idea" as much as the next SF fan, but the fact of the matter is: a night's sleep after finishing the book finds me hard-pressed to remember the names of the characters. I bought into their plight (and their aspirations), but not into
them. Characters can't take a back seat to ideas (no matter how grand) in books I'm going to rave about.
I enjoyed it, but I wanted a lot more from this book.