Commentary On Children of Strife
Spoilers below
I really enjoyed Children of Time. I thought Children of Ruin was a bit of a re-tread but enjoyed it as well. I didn’t like Children of Memory. I am close to the end of Children of Strife and I am enjoying it as well.
One thing I have got to say though; our boy Adrian Tchaikovsky can create some truly insane scenes if you stop for a minute and really objectively think about what he is describing.
>!Towards the end of the book a giant, sentient shrimp is riding a drone outside of a spiderweb woven spaceship mid-crash protecting it. Inside is a mechanical spider with two sentient spider consciousnesses merged inside it, a nano-virus uplifted Human women carrying an alien symbiotic organelle capable of data compression many orders of magnitude greater than our wildest dreams who is recovering from a psychotic break caused by spending more than a lifetime in a simulation and a millennia-year old human consciousness running on an ant colony operating system. What is Cato the Mega Shrimp protecting them from while they crash? A pterodactyl!<
Credit where credit is due, that is true imagination at work.