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Hi, I've just finished the book today. Quick question: the distress signal Portia and Holdens descendant are looking at - would it be the moon colony that died?

I know Gyurn intercepted the signal on the Gil but would it fit?

Did anyone else preorder The Best of Adrian Tchaikovsky which was originally supposed to be available in March? It is impossible to get ahold of anyone at this company. Are they legit? I see that it was released on February 28th.

Surprisingly, the ark ships were my favourite part of Children of Strife!

I absolutely loved Cosimir and the rest of Key Crew. It was absolutely HEARTBREAKING reading the part where the ship gets attacked by the pantheon. I felt like I was watching a slow motion car crash :(

My absolute favourite part of the whole book was the conversation with Bartilow and Cosimir. The descriptions of them walking through the overgrown ship is so cinematic. And when Bartilow talked about the 7 Hoarders and how heroism can be a form of selfishness too. That’ll really stick with me for a while…

Just in case people aren't aware (maybe it comes up all the time and Reddit's search function is rubbish), our man does a monthly podcast with Emma Newman. They take turns convincing each other of the merits of a favourite work.

Lots of fun and highly recommended!

I've just started a dnd game set in the Shadows of the Apt universe. The players are typical Lowland kinden (Fly as Halfling, Moth as Tiefling, Bee as Fire Dragonborn, Mantis as Dhampir).

I want to populate the world with some new and rarer kinden but need some cool ideas. So far I'm thinking Crane Fly kinden, who are 8-foot tall and mostly Inapt, and Whip Spiders/Whip Scorpions who are fighting true Spiders to become dominant in the Spiderlands.

Huge fan of the series but I just can't seem to get into it. I keep spacing out as I read it as it seems to be a lot of tell and not enough show. Too much explaining it seems.

I don't remember the other books being like this...or, if they were, I guess the story in those maybe just resonated with me more? Not sure but something feels a bit off here to me.

Is it worth toughing it out? Does it have a great pay off? I really liked the simulation artifact concept from the last book...so other than what we learned about Alis' experience in said simulation so far, do we end up learning more about the artifact's origins?

If not, hate to be a quitter on a series I love but I think I'm going to have to tap out. As none of the other plot threads in this story (or its characters) seem to interest me very much.

I just finished reading this today, and having finished it, the question occurred to me: for most of the book, we're given to understand that having Kiln organisms in a human body is fatal over a longer or shorter period of time (example tank, some people who come back from excursions)...

And then we learn it's not inevitable fatal (Rasmussen), and then we have what happens on the long march back to camp. So what makes Rasmussen, the marchers and everyone in camp after the marchers return different from the example tank victims?

While reading Children of Strife, it was a bit hard for me to visualize how Cato can deliver those lethal punches. This video really put things in perspective.

Desperately. I’m googling like crazy just to get an idea of what The Unspeakable Aklu looks like but really, all of it needs visuals.

I’m this far away from having AI mock something up so I can visualize it better.

Loving the book btw. Rollo is my favorite so far.