Children of Ruin
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
Children of Ruin
| Author | Adrian Tchaikovsky |
|---|---|
| Published | 2019 |
| Pages | 584 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Tchaikovsky’s sequel to Children of Time runs the first book’s experiment again with octopuses, whose cognition is distributed through their limbs, and adds a second, genuinely non-cognate intelligence. Its real subject is the cost of first contact when neither side’s concepts translate. |
Children of Ruin
Where I heard about it
- a16z’s infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, B tier (“also worth reading”), as volume two of the Children of Time series. It follows the first book directly and assumes its ending.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — the list this came from.
- Adrian Tchaikovsky — the author.
- Children of Time — volume one, and the starting point.
- Children of Memory — volume three.
- Evolution — the mechanism the series runs on.
- Science Fiction — the genre page.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.