I feel like this book needs to be adapted into an Amazon Prime or Netflix show or even a video game made by Obsidian Studios. The latter half of this book felt like I had watched the Expanse Season 4.
Which it certainly does in the climax, because I can tell you one thing. On top of that, the world was introducing new characters, new worlds, and it felt like the story wanted to be all in one. In another way, there was a certain vibe with the Hunger Games, as I felt that the Intermediaries aren’t seen as real humans, just objects of the instrumental divine will be used against secret aliens. On the other hand, it felt like an episode of the Expanse with a heavy emphasis on realism. The story I feel is in a conundrum in some areas, for example, some action scenes were reminiscent of Star Wars. You don’t just wake up one morning and decide to create a world like this, you spend years working on something as big as this. Because you have to appreciate just how much time, effort, and value went into creating this world. I took plenty of notes to make sure I didn’t get lost in the novel. Any sci-fi world takes time to get through. This is hard sci-fi to understand, and many times I did struggle to keep up with the story because this is the first book in the series. That’s the basis for this world in a nutshell. They are the worst architects in all of human history. These colonies became far-flung settlements of colonization, and just as history goes to prove, these colonies then form their agendas. Each Earth colony on various planets and worlds formed their basis and separate identity. Then Earth’s colonies became off-shoots of each other, extending like a tree. Once upon a time, there was Earth, and Earth decided to colonise the world. There are new worlds, new civilizations, new peoples to deal with. It’s the fantasy equivalent of worldbuilding only in the Sci-Fi Realm. Shards of the Earth is a brand new world entering into the Sci-Fi Realm. Thank you to the Write Reads, Tor UK, Jamie-Lee Nardone for providing me a review copy! ‘Brilliant science fiction’ – James McAvoy on Children of Time
#SHARDS OF WAR REVIEW FULL#
‘He writes incredibly enjoyable sci-fi, full of life and ideas’ – Patrick Ness ‘Enthralling, epic, immersive and hugely intelligent’ – Stephen Baxter on Shards of Earth For they now possess something of incalculable value, and many would kill to obtain it. It’s clearly the work of the Architects – but are they really returning? And if so, why? Hunted by gangsters, cults and governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy as they search for answers. Now, Idris and his crew have something strange, abandoned in space. Then these ‘Architects’ simply disappeared and Idris and his kind became obsolete. So mankind created enhanced humans such as Idris – who could communicate mind-to-mind with our aggressors. And one of humanity’s heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers.Įighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien enemy. Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade his mind in the war.
Shards of Earth is the first high-octane instalment in the Final Architecture trilogy. Clarke Award.Ĭhristopher Paolini described Adrian Tchaikovsky as ‘one of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction’.
From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epic Children of Time,