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4.5 stars!My first Tchaikovsky novella and my first of his sci-fi. Loved it. My full review: https://youtu.be/zY_J8xsGR0U
Another hit from A.Tchaikovsky. Sci-fi and sometimes fantasy depending on who is telling the story and then horror. Slow start but once it hooks you in - unputdownable. Loved it!
At first, I had the impression that I was reading something from Steven Brust, which, I should mention, is not a bad thing at all. But this tale was much more about Clarke's First Law and with a cool anthropology twist and an old school sword and sorcery couched firmly, and formally, in a transhumanist long-term space-colony context.Most of those older fantasies I read usually started on the fantasy side and gradually let in the SF. This one started from the opposite direction. So that's cool. A...
Lynesse Fourth Daughter seeks the help of a sorcerer to combat a curious demon plaguing the forest lands neighbouring her mother's kingdom. The only problem is that Nyr, the sorcerer in question, is a centuries-old modified human who suffers from crippling depression. Alternating between these two viewpoints, Tchaikovsky intelligently prods at the idea that fantasy and science fiction are mutually exclusive from one another and questions how the genres might move in directions typically not assi...
This novella is an entertaining scifi twist on a traditional fairytale trope. Lynette, fourth daughter of the queen, and her trusted companion journey to the high tower of the legendary sorcerer to wake him and request his help in slaying the demon tormenting her people. After all the sorcerer did help her great grandmother do just that and promised to come to her aid again when called. The princess and the sorcerer have differing views of the history of the world in which she lives, making for
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”- Arthur C. Clarke“There is no magic, merely the proper application of universal forces.”- Adrian Tchaikovsky—————Adrian Tchaikovsky and I are a good writer/reader match. He’s yet to disappoint me — and I hope he never does. He’s prolific and versatile and a very competent writer, above all. With most writers it’s either quality or quantity, but Mr. T manages both, seemingly effortlessly. I can only assume that he has so much...
On sale now! 4+ stars for this great fantasy/SF mashup. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke.This short novel is about the intersection between highly advanced technology and a society that views it as magic, along with the linguistic difficulties that prevent the local society's people from understanding the difference even when the anthropologist who's been studying them for years tries to explain it. Also it's about a quest to destroy a Lo...
I keep teasing myself with these short novels by Adrian Tchaikovsky before I embark on the quest to read his massive space opera books. The premise of this book gives a sneak peak of a clever little story told from different point of views that interpret things so vastly different. It addresses the age-old question of where to draw the line at magic and science. These standalone novels are such a joy to read. The novel contains two POVs in the form of Nyr and Lynesse. Lynesse is the black sheep...
I knew I needed this pretty much as soon as I heard what was it about, doubly so when I saw the cover. And after a long string of sub-par reads, a book that actually lived up to its promise was more than welcome.Lynesse is the fourth daughter of the queen. When a strange monster threatens the land, and nobody seems to want to do anything to help, she goes out to seek the wizard who made a promise to her grandmother. Except the wizard, Nyr, isn’t a wizard at all, but an anthropologist, the last o...
4.5*“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke. Another excellent story from the very prolific Tchaikovsky. I particularly loved how through the two narrators, we get the same events but seen from very different angles - one from a technological advanced person, the other not. This became quickly fascinating, and often very funny. The story however is not a comical one, but rather a search for meaning and identity while dealing with a pretty horrif...
I have no guarantee that there will ever be word from home. Three centuries of silence says there won’t be, and that I am a remnant of a culture whose second flowering into space, that seemed unstoppable and glorious, was actually just brief and doomed. I am more a relic worthy of study than those I was placed to observe.Rocannon's World by Ursula Le Guin Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a fantasy story with some sci-fi wrapping. On a world that was colonized by humans from Earth many centuri...
