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Children Of The Sky is certainly available digitally.
by SECProto 3y ago
Children Of The Sky is certainly available digitally.
- throw1234651234 3y agoIt's a bad book, nowhere close to the first two in any regard.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoIt's not bad. It looks to be what would have become the first of a trilogy. It's just slow and sets the stage for something that culminates in another Fire Upon the Deep tier finale.
- stormking 3y agoPeople wanted to read how Pham Nuwen defeated the Emergents, learn more about the Zones of Thought or see the Blight finally destroyed once and for all. No one wanted more Game of Dogs.
- db48x 3y agoWell, the characters are stuck on a primitive planet in the Slow Zone so if you go in expecting Space Opera then you’ll be disappointed. If you go in with a more open mind then you may find that there’s actually an interesting philosophical point to be examined and a decent story built around it.
- bkcooper 3y agoWell, the characters are stuck on a primitive planet in the Slow Zone so if you go in expecting Space Opera then you’ll be disappointed. Except half of Fire Upon the Deep was characters on the same planet but it was actually cool. The first two books are definitely among my favorite sci-fi of all time, the third one was a dud. My main gripe is that these three books all share the same trope that underpins one of the major subplots: glib, charming politician type is scheming, eeeeevil. In the first two books, there's enough novelty (how the Tines and Spiders work, programming as archaeology, localizer mania) to make up for that. But I don't really think the third book adds much in the same way, and it is also very clearly building to a confrontation that will happen in a future book. So the staleness is much more noticeable
- throw1234651234 3y agoDoes anyone know if he got started on another book in the series?
- db48x 3y agoYes, I recall that he started writing one about the invasion of the Emergency, but it was too depressing and he abandoned it.