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Last year I did really well with a bookspin list and a bookspin bingo list. It really helped me whittle down my GR TBR while also getting bingos reading more current books.
I am going to continue the tradition! One of my goals is to get everyone before 2020 off my TBR, I have 39 books to get to.
There will probably be overlap in the lists as I try to get things moving.
So excited for this new year! Thanks for all your hard work @thearomaofbooks

Giant, intelligent spiders & humanity‘s last few, struggling to survive….mix them together and what do you get? An entertaining book!

This novel took what felt like forever to read. It was enjoyable overall if perhaps a little slow at times. I like how Tchaikovsky interprets the psyche of a non-primate species and how he addresses the challenges inherent in a meeting of two sentient life forms.

#Movie2BookRecs @klou
Prompt: Passengers

Excellent—the last remnants of humankind leave Earth hoping to find a new home…which they think they have when they discover a terraformed planet. But, the planet isn‘t waiting for them, things aren‘t as the seem, & it‘s a race against time to ensure the survival of the human race. Filled with the audacity, hubris, & hope of humans, the story is also one of the best examples of evolutionary worldbuilding I‘ve ever read. Fascinating, engaging read.

This morning‘s reading while everyone else is still asleep.

Mind blowing! Such an original idea.
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#ChildrenOfTime #AdrianTchaikovsky
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Well, that was quite a journey! I found some of the middle bits hard going but I‘m very glad I stuck with it as altogether the story is glorious.

Another episode of me trying to get my head into science fiction. Enjoying this but finding the two intertwined stories hard work to switch between.

#SavvySettings @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
#OuterSpace

This is my first sci-fi genre book ever, and I enjoyed it tremendously. 😄

It talks of a time when the Earth is no more and humanity searches for a new home. The book explores so many incredible themes such as genocide, racism, sexism, cultural misinformation and greed.

I loved the ending - what a spectacular alternative to reality. Definitely recommend this book if you‘re starting out with science fiction.

Children of Ruin - here I come 😃

Starting a new book today! So excited to get back into science fiction (-:

It‘s a very interesting read about how intelligence could manifest itself in creatures with very different physical characteristics and ways of interacting with the environment.

I ❤️ book mail! This appears to be turning into the winter of really big books…

The earth is gone and an ark ship full of humans is searching the galaxy for a new home. Also a green planet with ultra advanced spiders.
This was going to be a so-so read until the last few chapters. They were brilliant 🕷
#BuddyRead #DecemberBuddyRead @rsteve388 @LibrarianRyan #BBRC #YeahBaby #BioPunk
#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
#LittenListen #HappyEnding @aperfectmjk
#AVeryMerryBingo #RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer @Jadams1776

Tchaikovsky creates a sentient species. He gives them a unique means of communicating, a particular social hierarchy and a biological technology that makes complete sense. Then sets them against the last of humankind. In doing so, he shines a light on many of our foibles and idiosyncrasies. The result has to be one of the best science fiction books of the last decade. Serious sci fi fans must read.

#SciFiBuddyread #buddyread #ChildrenOfTime @rsteve388 @BookwormAHN @LibrarianRyan

Doesn't seem to be my kind of book. I'm not invested in the story. I tried the audiobook, too. I'm just not interested in what's going on.

The writing is good, though. I'll definitely try some of Tchaikovsky's other books.

Goosebumps. I don't like Portia chapters. Someone should have TW-ed me. 😬 Guess that happens when you add a book to your TBR without reading the blurb properly. 😉

#ChildrenOfTime #DecemberBuddyRead #SciFiBuddyread #buddyread

@rsteve388 @BookwormAHN @LibrarianRyan

#BuddyRead #DecemberBuddyRead #ScifiBuddyRead @BookwormAHN @LibrarianRyan @julesG

Hey y'all. I am excited to do this buddy read with y'all! Here is a breakdown of how I plan to read the book. Feel free to do it differently or what have you. I am gonna see if I can find a discussion guide and see if we can't discuss what happens throughout the book as a group.

@TheAromaofBooks #BookSpinBingo #DecemberTBR I have two slots open (19 and 20 for two graphic novels. )

Looking forward to reading Children of Time. Planning to read a.150 pages a week. (It's a 600 page book) so this way it's easy to ensure completion.

I also have an #LMPBC book I need to fit in here.

Does anyone know if anyone hosts a Sci-fi Month long readathon? I was just thinking that I don't really read a whole.lot of sci-fi and I'd like to, could of.course use a little help from the community. Thanks in Advance!

A few weeks back I picked up an Etsy Blind Date With a Book and today it arrived! It was really fun to see what I got! The tagged book is the book but look how cute the packaging.

I've been checking goodwill sporadically for a couple books I'd like to find as used paperbacks. No luck with them today, but I scored this for 3 dollars. I'm calling this a win.

Thank you for these #3WordReviews @ShyBookOwl and thank you for the tag @Mavey 😌

Staggering! 🤯
Fascinating! 🖖
Unique! 🦄

If you‘d like to play, consider yourself tagged! 😀🏷

Thank you for this #WondrousWednesday @Eggs and thank you for the tag @TheSpineView 😀

1. For the tagged book, I‘m going with “Ziggy Stardust”, since it involves humanity‘s savior traveling through space and spiders from another world! 🕷

2. I love figures based on book characters like Funko Pops.

3. It doesn‘t matter to me if characters are my age. I enjoy the Stormlight Archive series and some of those characters are hundreds of years old!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 - I loved this book, a really interesting sci-fi story about humanities search amoung the stars. I loved the alternating chapters between life on the Gilgamesh spaceship and the green terraformed planet humanity wants to call home. The book starts and finishes with an exciting pace which made for easy reading, the ending could perhaps be seen as slightly anticlimactic, but I don‘t know how it could have been written any differently.

https://www.luulit.com/product/children-of-time-audible-audiobook-unabridged/

Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.

Who will inherit this new Earth?

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars....

WOW! Classic hard sci-fi for the win 📚📚📚📚📚 This is a rare 5 stack read for me, I loved this book every time I picked it up. Humans out in space, alternate species evolution, insane human/computer hybrids, and so well written from start to finish.

#SciFiSeptember @Klou
#Elysium

In this Sci-Fi novel the remains of humanity leave a dying Earth to find a new home among the stars.

#TarotTakeover #PageOfCups

Today‘s card represents curiosity and creative possibilities. This reminded me of the alien spiders from “Children of Time.” As the spiders evolve and develop more cognitive thought and awareness, they explore new technologies and create a whole new society. They become more curious about their world and the opportunities it presents.

Thank you to @ErinSueMreads and @Meaw_catlady for this fun bookish challenge! 🙏

This is the hard, speculative science fiction that really does it for me. Terraformed planets seeded just for evolutionary genetic experiments gone horribly wrong and yet in such an interesting way. Generational arks sent out from a dying earth and an insane god like scientist trying to pull some very interesting strings. Can't wait for the 2nd one.
5/5 Stars

I really wanted to love this one, and it started out pretty good. But it just went on and on and on. I feel like a so-so is being very generous.

5 out of 5 minds blown by awesomeness! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

This novel is one of the most brilliant and fascinating science fiction stories I‘ve ever read, particularly how the alien species evolved as a society and discovered their own forms of industry, structure, and science. I loved the exploration of social themes throughout the story. It made me think and also made me feel during the entire journey. Highly recommended for any fans of science fiction!

I honestly can't believe this the author's 1st sci-fi book because it's so meticulously well-crafted and comes together SO well. the sheer time scale of events in this book are so widespread yet everything is fluid. Tchaikovsky also keeps a strong balance between the focus on humans and the emerging spider civilization so neither side ever feels stale or overstaying its welcome. just...wow, this was another excellent read for the year.

I participated in the #MaskUpBookstagram challenge today.

I wear a mask to protect myself and anyone I am in contact with. I wear a mask to help slow down the spread of Covid-19. Really, the mild inconvenience of having a piece of cloth on your face is nothing compared to the inconvenience of contracting a virulent disease!

Plus, if you‘re really lucky, you can find a mask that coordinates with the book you‘re currently reading! 📚

Thank you for #ThoughtfulThursday @MoonWitch94 and thank you for the tag @JoyBlue 😀

1️⃣ I‘d have to go with Harold Lauder from “The Stand. Harold has two modes, “whiny” and “creepy”. Harold‘s attitudes towards women are so unhealthy and disturbing, I felt like taking a shower any time I read a chapter with him in it.
2️⃣ Freshly cut grass! 💚
3️⃣ Two books! “Palom” by L.L. McNeil and the tagged one.

@Meaw_catlady Would you like to play? 😺

OMG this book. This was one of the most interesting and amazing books I think I have ever read. I was surprised like 4 different times at the shifts of narrative and was overwhelmed with such a fresh Sci-fi take. It reminded me a lot of Game of Thrones, not in the story/writing, but that it's of a genre (sci-fi) but also feels outside of it and quite broad. Like GOT, I feel like I could recommend this to almost anyone, not just sci-fi readers.

Great story about clashing civilizations

“At least a hundred were sitting around the hangar, and he was struck with an almost phobic response to them: too many, too close, too enclosed. He ended up hovering next to the doorway, realizing that some part of his mind had resigned itself to a future of dealing only with a few other humans, and had perhaps preferred that.”

A man after my own introverted heart! 😂🤣

Thank you for inviting me to participate in #AllAboutMe @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 😊

1️⃣ It‘s my name and favorite number. So creative, I know! 😂
2️⃣ Accountant 🤓
3️⃣ I‘m working from home full time, and busier now than before the stay-at-home orders! My boss knows I can‘t go anywhere! 😥
4️⃣ Tagged! Loving it! 📖
5️⃣ Try not to be too hard on yourself! The current situation was thrust upon you and is in no way your fault! Be kind to yourself 🤗

“You will be courageous. You will test my new weapon, and if it fails you are likely to die. I need you to confront the colony marching against us. I need you to walk right into the heart of it.”

No pressure or anything! 😳

“It‘s times like these …” he started.
She raised an eyebrow. “Times like what? Being held hostage by lunatic mutineers who might kill us at any second? How many times like those have you had, exactly? Or is the world of academia more interesting than I thought?”

Probably not! 😴😂🤣

Don‘t let my expression fool you, I‘m actually enjoying this book! I just read a chapter where spiders go to war with ants, and it was more inventive and exciting than many battle scenes I‘ve read in fantasy novels!

But... WOW, do all these graphic descriptions of spiders doing spidery things make me feel squeamish sometimes! 😰🕷

#Two4Tuesday

Thank you for the tags @TheSpineView @Meaw_catlady 😊

1. Spidery!!! 😱🕷🕸

2. No, but it isn‘t due to any concern about having books delivered. I‘m trying to save money right now (especially since I don‘t know how the pandemic will affect the agency I work for in the long run), so I am concentrating on books I already own.

“The three spiders are out of their territory by fifty days. Theirs is a species given to curiosity. That same ability that allowed their tiny ancestors to create a mental map of their environs has become the ability to imagine, to ask what is beyond the forest. Portia‘s people are born explorers.”

I love how super-evolved spiders are such compelling characters here. Even though I usually like spiders about as much as the guy in this photo does!

“This will be the first of a thousand worlds that we will give life to. For we are gods, and we are lonely, so we shall create …”

Started a new book today! Very promising start so far! 😀

Contrary to the advice I was given, this isn‘t a good book for arachnophobes (especially with visual imaginations). But in spite of my creeping horror I can appreciate that it is - objectively - a good book, however little I was able to enjoy it. If you like spiders, it‘s a must read, a clever examination of social and scientific evolution on an alternate thread, contrasted with the last twitches of humanity #LitsyAtoZ

Who would have thought a book about spiders could be so interesting! Genuinely enjoying this #bookclub read

That was a fascinating read. Sure no book for people with arachnophobia, but I'm gladly none of those. Now I have a new view point on evolution and that's cool.