- English literature, Fiction, Science fiction
Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien 'Architect'. Some escaped, but millions more died. So to protect its colonies, humanity shaped the minds of Idris and others into weapons and sent them into battle. But the Architects disappeared, and heroes like Idris were forgotten. However, he's glad of it. This particular living weapon would rather retire to a shabby salvage vessel then be anyone's ammunition. Then this small ship makes a huge discovery.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- First published
- 2021
- Pages
- 560
- Publisher
- Hachette Book Group and Blackstone Publishing, Orbit, Pan Macmillan
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781529051902
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“In the seventy-eighth year of the war, an Architect came to Berlenhof.”
ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY was born in Lincolnshire and studied zoology and psychology at Reading, before practising law in Leeds. He is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor and is trained in stage-fighting. His literary influences include Gene Wolfe, Mervyn Peake, China Miéville, Mary Gently, Steven Erikson, Naomi Novak, Scott Lynch and Alan Campbell.
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