Konstantinos Kavourakis rated Elder Race: 4 stars

Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to …
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In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to …
The colony ship Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having travelled light years from home to bring one thousand sleeping …
The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the …
Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the …
In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives …
A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.
The Free Navy - a violent …
The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series.
A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land …
The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out …
For generations, the solar system — Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt — was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The …
We are not alone.
On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered …
Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our …
Definitely not as good a The Martian, it's main weakness is that it's too slow initially. The lunar city setup is quite interesting and the actual main character a very interesting young woman! She's not a brilliant scientist/engineer in this case but she's certainly not boring. Not going to spoil more.
Advertised as a thriller, but in reality its romance with thriller elements. People immersed in the underworld are much more cynical and cold blooded that those in the book, they have to. The characters remind me of Hollywood's average action thrillers, somehow fake. That made it hard for me to get into it and it took me longer than I was expecting to finish it.
A good one from the author of "The Martian" that I read in just 3 days! The story didn't get boring but be warned, this is not hard sci-fi. Certain liberties are taken, but the overall plot works well.