Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (finished 12NOV2019)

Good, but ending felt 'deus ex machina', through there have been hints about it beforehand, and it's a logical conclusion. I like the exploration of complications caused by cryogenic sleep, where while suspended the aging and dreaming stops, and then when the person wakes up later on, not knowing how many decades, maybe centuries even have passed, he encounters someone who continued living and that other person is older now, and it's such a strange situation. I like how the novel shows how much psychological toll this would have on the person. /// How the novel uses time is also interesting. The scope is vast - thousands of years, and I like the idea of humanity losing knowledge of certain high-technologies which they later on would find and expend a lot of effort on decoding and actually using. /// The classicist is a mostly sympathetic character. I also like the more 'extreme' personalities like Dr. Avrana Kern, and the ship captain of the space ark Gilgamesh. /// The exploration of alternate technologies is interesting. The novel shows what would happen if a culture/society only has these limited things to work on because of physical-biological reasons. I like how it was described as 'space age - stone age' by one of the characters. Overall, an engaging story with great world-building and extrapolations. Has sympathetic characters, and interesting alternate technological possibilities.