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Children of Time and the sequel Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Best sci-fi I’ve read in a while.
by bryan0 5y ago
Children of Time and the sequel Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Best sci-fi I’ve read in a while.
- michaelbarton 5y agoReally liked the first one. How is the second one? Sort of been avoiding it because of how much I liked the first, and not wanting to be disappointed.
- candiddevmike 5y agoNot OP, but I read both of them too. The second is not as good as the first, got a little too weird (already a weird setup as you can assume from the first book). It's enjoyable but filled with a lot of tropes, compared to the first one which was quite original IMO.
- michaelbarton 5y agoThanks! Appreciate that. I may skip it then.
- bryan0 5y agoYeah I agree with this, it gets more into the sci-fi horror genre which some people might like and others not. I would say though that it’s still a very good book and if you liked the first I would definitely recommend.
- the__alchemist 5y agoMore of what makes the first one good. Def read if you liked the first. Not as good in terms of how attached you get to the characters. The ending of the first was brilliant IMO, and the ending of the second was a bit of a let down. I think it almost would have been better if he left the Chekhov's gun introduced towards the end up to the reader's imagination, instead of going into it explicitly.
- monkeycantype 5y agoI love the second one, it leaps about more, but I really enjoyed the way the ideas of the first book are expanded in multiple strange directions
- jasonkester 5y agoI read both of these based on several independent recommendations here. The first was ok, and the second was barely readable. Certainly not anywhere near as bad as the Three Body Problem, as far as HN recommended books go, but I think I’m still going to have to start avoiding books recommended here. To answer the original question (and remain within sci-fi), then new Andy Weir book Project Hail Mary was pretty good. Not quite on the level of The Martian, but good enough to recommend to others.
- giraffe_lady 5y agoYeah for fantasy and sci fi both there is just a cast of about 20 authors that will be recommended in every thread that mentions a book. There are some gems in there but for the most part the fiction recs around here are fairly narrow and don't align with my preferences so I've learned to avoid them.