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Oh! Reminds me of my favorite Sci-Fi ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_Time_(novel)

wegfawefgawefg 3y ago
I like this book but the human parts suck!! I just wanna read about spiders. Not about some people on a ship.
- sockaddr 3y ago
  True, but the dysfunctional humans give much needed context!
  - sdenton4 3y ago
    And Kern - arguably human, at some point in the narrative - is one of my all-time favorite characters.
cgriswald 3y ago
I’m on the third book of The Final Architecture Series and it’s great space opera with good story-telling. The world of the series feels real and yet mysterious and fantastical. I looked into his other series when I discovered him and was hesitant to get invested in Children of Time because the reviews I read were mixed and many said it was (paraphrasing here) good but something of a slog. What do you love about it, and—if you’ve read them—how does it compare to TFA series?
- blamestross 3y ago
  Spider Civilization. I like TFA a lot, but it is very character driven. CoT is a collectivist story, the non-human-centric story reads like David Attenborough is narrating it. I like that part a lot. The human/character driven parts of the story feel a bit tacked-on and not actually critical to the themes and messages of the story. I think it is worth a read, and the sequels are more character driven than CoT.
  - cmrx64 3y ago
    Maybe I was hallucinatung more detail than was there, but I found parts of the book had stunning parallels between the themes of each storyline, where the symbolic struggles by each cast of characters informed or reflected somehow the struggles of the other.
  - cgriswald 3y ago
    Hey, thanks for the response. This helps.
- geden 3y ago
  Children of Time series a slog? Wow. It’s a page turning spine tingling, rip roarer. Stuffed full of high concepts, great characters and wry humour. As is the second book. Which kind of adds a horror slant. The third book is more ambitious and conceptual and in parts, slightly harder going. Still highly rewarding. Best hardish SF series I’ve read in recent years.
  - nullc 3y ago
    I read it after reading a comment like yours. I read a lot of sci-fi. I wish I had my time back. I'd advise other people-- if you don't like the first book, don't bother with the rest. It isn't one of those series that is a slog for the first but gets great. You'll like it or you won't.
FrustratedMonky 3y ago
The Barbie Movie was huge right? But I would love to see a feminist movie made from "Children of Time". Female Spider society Where the Female Spiders rule, and eat the men. And casually talk to each other like "you feel like going to hunt some men tonight", and literally eat them.

wegfawefgawefg 3y ago

I like this book but the human parts suck!! I just wanna read about spiders. Not about some people on a ship.

sockaddr 3y ago
True, but the dysfunctional humans give much needed context!
- sdenton4 3y ago
  And Kern - arguably human, at some point in the narrative - is one of my all-time favorite characters.

cgriswald 3y ago

I’m on the third book of The Final Architecture Series and it’s great space opera with good story-telling. The world of the series feels real and yet mysterious and fantastical. I looked into his other series when I discovered him and was hesitant to get invested in Children of Time because the reviews I read were mixed and many said it was (paraphrasing here) good but something of a slog. What do you love about it, and—if you’ve read them—how does it compare to TFA series?

blamestross 3y ago
Spider Civilization. I like TFA a lot, but it is very character driven. CoT is a collectivist story, the non-human-centric story reads like David Attenborough is narrating it. I like that part a lot. The human/character driven parts of the story feel a bit tacked-on and not actually critical to the themes and messages of the story. I think it is worth a read, and the sequels are more character driven than CoT.
- cmrx64 3y ago
  Maybe I was hallucinatung more detail than was there, but I found parts of the book had stunning parallels between the themes of each storyline, where the symbolic struggles by each cast of characters informed or reflected somehow the struggles of the other.
- cgriswald 3y ago
  Hey, thanks for the response. This helps.
geden 3y ago
Children of Time series a slog? Wow. It’s a page turning spine tingling, rip roarer. Stuffed full of high concepts, great characters and wry humour. As is the second book. Which kind of adds a horror slant. The third book is more ambitious and conceptual and in parts, slightly harder going. Still highly rewarding. Best hardish SF series I’ve read in recent years.
- nullc 3y ago
  I read it after reading a comment like yours. I read a lot of sci-fi. I wish I had my time back. I'd advise other people-- if you don't like the first book, don't bother with the rest. It isn't one of those series that is a slog for the first but gets great. You'll like it or you won't.

FrustratedMonky 3y ago

The Barbie Movie was huge right? But I would love to see a feminist movie made from "Children of Time". Female Spider society Where the Female Spiders rule, and eat the men. And casually talk to each other like "you feel like going to hunt some men tonight", and literally eat them.