Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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lightreadsShards of Earth
4/5. First in a trilogy about post-Earth-destruction human diaspora, and what happens when the giant inexplicable alien destroyers come back years later.
Enjoyable mash of galactic politics stuff and weird psychic alien mind battles stuff. My overall opinion may change a lot, though, depending on how the rest of the trilogy goes. This book begins to evoke themes of survival under oppression and doing horrible things under compulsion, which . . . good for him, but like, I come here for the sentient spiders, you know?* And I just don't know if he's equipped to handle what he's dishing out. To say nothing of the running argument throughout this book about whether the elimination of disability is an acceptable price for genetic engineering. I've really got to see how all this falls out.
*Don't worry, there are multiple weird alien bioforms, he's still him.
4/5. First in a trilogy about post-Earth-destruction human diaspora, and what happens when the giant inexplicable alien destroyers come back years later.
Enjoyable mash of galactic politics stuff and weird psychic alien mind battles stuff. My overall opinion may change a lot, though, depending on how the rest of the trilogy goes. This book begins to evoke themes of survival under oppression and doing horrible things under compulsion, which . . . good for him, but like, I come here for the sentient spiders, you know?* And I just don't know if he's equipped to handle what he's dishing out. To say nothing of the running argument throughout this book about whether the elimination of disability is an acceptable price for genetic engineering. I've really got to see how all this falls out.
*Don't worry, there are multiple weird alien bioforms, he's still him.