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Just finished my first book of the year, Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I think he's now my favorite author, at least currently writing. He's so good at so many things, from hard SF to fantasy. He's created some really interesting worlds, and populated them with interesting characters.

So far, I've read these books of his (order I read them, not order published):

Children of Time
Children of Ruin
Children of Memory
Made Things
Walking to Aldebaran
Service Model
Shroud
City of Last Chances
Alien Clay

Each of these is a gem. The children of time series has to be an all-time great SF trilogy. If you want my little paragraph of spoiler-free notes on why of them, let me know.

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[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

I still can't wrap my mind around how I am supposed to imagine the kinden, like should I imagine them as more human with insect features or insects with humanoid features?

[-] KnitWit@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Haha, yeah for several of them I have a pretty strong mental image of what I think they’d look like, but I don’t think it actually lines up with how they are described in the book at all.

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