- Fiction, Science fiction, space opera
Sequel to Shards of Earth. An Architect almost destroyed humanity's foremost colony, until Idris Telemmier turned it aside. But that was just the start of the war - and now no planet is safe. Ancient artefacts once repelled these vast aliens, but they are now terrifyingly ineffective. However, the ruins of a lost civilization offer hope.
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Classical in form, epic, earnest and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- First published
- 2022
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan, Orbit
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781529051940
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“Who'd have thought crazy would turn out to be such valuable cargo?”
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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