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Amazon signed copy?!?

Feel like I just got a little win for once. I ordered a copy of Days of Shattered Faith off amazon and it arrived damaged with dirty fingerprints on it. I asked for a replacement and it turned up today and its signed!!!

u/Firm_Weird_9080 — 2 days ago

Children of Time ending question

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?

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u/luderudesendnudes — 3 days ago

The Best of Adrian Tchaikovsky preorder from Subterranean Press is a no show

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.

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u/LargeBarracuda7970 — 5 days ago

Children of time box set, printed on tissue paper

I just received the Children of Time box set by Orbit. The hardcovers of these books are usually astronomically priced, and the Broken Binding editions are sold out. So this box set priced at about $50 on Amazon seemed like a great deal. Until I opened the first book and noticed how thin the paper they used was. Not only is the text on the reverse side bleeding through, but you can pretty much read the opposite page through the paper. Very irritating to read a book printed like this. I'll be returning this set.

Does anyone know if the trade paperback editions are printed on better paper?

u/livens — 5 days ago

Second age appreciation post

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…

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u/simone_draws — 6 days ago

Service model

I'm just over half way through the Service Model audio book through the library app Borrow Box and loving it. I think having it narrated by AT himself probably helps a lot to get across the specific humour intended by his writing. That's not to say I haven't hugely enjoyed the audio books I listen to narrated by others, but I'm really enjoying this. 6 hours down, 6 to go.

u/AnalyticalFan — 7 days ago
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Tchaikovsky - Final Architecture : cover designs

Been trying to get the full set in hardback, last volume arrived today (ORBIT edition) and it’s a bit of a jolt compared to the TOR versions.

I get there are usually some differences but this is extreme!

If anyone has the Tor hardback and willing to take a good picture of the dust jacket so I can make a spine cover for this version for whilst on the shelf I would be eternally grateful!!

u/cadet-spoon — 9 days ago

Starship Alexandria podcast

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!

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u/LaidBackLeopard — 6 days ago

New kinden for Shadows of the Apt DnD

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.

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u/ZorroVonShadvitch — 7 days ago

Do I call it a day on Children of Strife at 60%?

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.

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u/DrVanderjuice — 10 days ago

Niche question about Adrian Tchaikovsky

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?

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u/RoundMolecule — 8 days ago

Mantis shrimp punch

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.

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u/guptaji_ka_beta — 10 days ago

Shards of Earth desperately needs an art book.

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.

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u/Emotional-Yam4486 — 8 days ago
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There's a Children of Time RPG coming

Hey gang. (Hope this is okay with the mods!) I'm one of the devs working with Adrian on the upcoming Children of Time Roleplaying Game and thought folk here might be interested in it.

You can find out a bunch about the game and follow it here.

Happy to answer questions folk might have too!

u/TheEnemyWithin9 — 14 days ago