Wes wants to read The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what …
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In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what …
An alien armada lurks on the edges of Teixcalaanli space. No one can communicate with it, no one can destroy …
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous …
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would …
At the frozen edge of the solar system lies a hidden treasure which could spell their fortune or their destruction—but …
Back cover description - Raoul Smythe wanted nothing more than to be left alone with his computer research. Unfortunately, such …
A sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Declaration of the Rights …
On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay. …
After reading Children of Time I felt like a had to come back to this. I read this at least 10 years ago so this is based on hazy memory. But I think I prefer this to Children of Time. I feel like he plays such a neat trick with the arachnids where you picture them as humans and then flip to picturing spiders.
I'm going to reread this soon and update my review after.
From the back cover:
World famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from Alzheimer's. …
... read A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge 😀
Actually, I think this book is more widely regarded and probably correctly at that. But I think I personally prefer Vinge's book. I guess my real recommendation is to read both.
I think its a nice example of how the genre has grown in the last 20 years. Tchaikovvsky's book has more nuanced characters, and the book moves away from some of the genre breeziness I expect. Its still "hard sci-fi", you couldn't change the cover and get it shelved on the Literary Fiction table.
I initially bounced of the book because it opens with Kern, an obvious Musk stand-in, and I didn't really want to deal, in 2023, with either a glowing great man capitalist protagonist or not very subtile criticism. But it was much more deft then I was planning to give it credit for.