![]() ![]() ![]() I received this book for free in exchange for an honest review. Note that, by my count, this is a novella, not a novel. ![]() It’s a shame, because I think the concept, while not novel, had good potential, and the framework and characters of the story were well in place. A junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an. While readable and pleasant, it seems to me that Tchaikovsky missed the target on this one there was just too much of a feeling of So what? at the end. Elder Race will be available from Tordotcom Publishing on November 16, 2021. Except that this story doesn’t really allow for either of those, in any direct sense. It felt, overall, like an exercise in worldbuilding – either testing out an environment for a larger story, or fleshing out an aspect of an existing story. It’s descriptive, sometimes emotional, but never really poignant, and with less tension than one might expect. ![]() At the same time, the end of the book left me wondering what the point of it all had been. I didn’t really find an answer.Įlder Race is much more like Walking than Shards – it has a small, contained cast a clear quest a linear timeline and a developed story that flows well. I picked up Elder Race to see which evaluation was the more correct. I’ve previously read two Adrian Tchaikovsky books: Walking to Aldebaran, which I quite liked, and Shards of Earth, which I thought was something of a mess. ![]()
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