#shards of earth

[literallymechanical]

Being good at Names is a highly underrated skill in science fiction, classic and modern. You can't just take an ominous noun and slap a definite article and capital letter on it anymore. What does it mean? What's the vibe? I don't know. The Domain. The Hive. The Facility. The Hierocracy. "A Demesne Capital Ship just came out of hyperspace!" Okay. Sure. Yawn. Is that a good thing? A bad thing? Who cares. I don't care.

Adrian Tchaikovsky is good at names. When something called a "Naeromathi Locust Ark" surfaces from unspace in your outer solar system, you don't need any other information to know that somebody is going to have a very bad day.

[souldagger]

(some of) the vulture god crew from the final architecture books by adrian tchaikovsky 🚀

[nickandros]

i am now reading some of adrian tchaikovsky's scifi and i thought i would probably like it less than city of last chances because i do tend to prefer fantasy, but i'm reading now about unspace in shards of earth and.

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[approximateknowledge]

idris telemmier is such a great protagonist

traumatised, malnourished, paranoid 5ft nothing twig of a guy who's almost a century old at this point but he got a bunch of invasive surgeries in his late 20s that made it so he stopped aging and also incapable of sleeping and extra susceptible to brain embolisms

the surgery in question was specifically to make him extra susceptible to *the horrors* because it is in fact his job to talk to the horrors and convince them not to kill everyone. afterwards he's always a comatose wreck regardless of whether it worked or not

the one singular time he chooses violence all he ends up achieving is breaking half the bones in his hand

his end goal is to just fucking leave but sadly people keep needing him to do diplomacy with the planet-strangling horrors

drenched-ass cinnamon roll of a character; he is so fucking tired

[elvynwitch]

Women in books set long past the violent destruction of Earth will be named Mercy and be the most grudge-holding meanest bitch in the space ship

[lifblogs]

(Something I wrote in a discord and decided to copy and past here about Disability Pride Month and reading.)

Since it’s Disability Pride Month I want to give a shoutout to *Shards of Earth* by Adrian Tchaikovsky for featuring a disabled character. She’s as rich and full as the other characters; she has her own skills, wants, and desires; she’s heavily featured in fight scenes; she told off someone for being created and bred within an ableist race; and said character who got told off has taken at least 1/3 of the book to work with this information and new perspective instead of immediately getting verbally defensive and rude. Currently on a scene where these two characters fought together, the non-disabled character is helping the disabled character quickly fix her mobility aid while on an enemy ship so they can leave together, and they’re openly sharing their feelings. I didn’t expect such a good plotline for this character! This almost *never* happens, and I didn’t look for it in a sci-fi series written by an able-bodied man. I feel seen and valued. There was even a part talking about how the character’s mobility aid does cause chronic pain as well. This is just so good.

I FIXED THE POST

[quietplaceinthestars]

If I had a nickel for everytime an author personified cataclysmic atrocities, the repercussions and the inability to reason with it on personal level unless you are a sad pathetic traumatic head injury and over all insane freaky powered weirdo with a codependent relationship with a woman who for one reason or another is unavailable, as a being or structure of unfathomable proportions that you can’t truly outrun or kill- with small offshoots that never seem to run out or stop. Then I would have two nickels. One for tamsyn Muir and the other for Adrian Tchaikovsky.

[cancerhound6]

Thr Final Architecture Trilogy

Idris Telemmier - an ageless, sleepless Int who pilots Unspace and can speak to giant crystal moons and the very core of the universe.

Keristina (Kris) Soolin Almier - a lawyer and duelist whose mind and reprise of the law is as sharp as her blade and duelling skills.

Solace - a genetically enhanced branch of the human race; part of an all female sect of warriors called The Parthenon - she is fiercely loyal and an old comrade of Idris back in the first War where they won against The Architects.

If you haven't read Shards of Earth (book 1 of The Final Architecture Trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky) and you enjoy smart sci-fi, space opera, rag tag crew of found family spacers; I recommend!!!!

This is just fan art of how I imagine them to look with my limited drawing skillset~ since there's not a lot of Sun in Space I imagine everyone is more ashen in tone.

[joriontel]

*listening to Revelation Space and remembering that one book with the guy who never aged but never slept and he was helped by a crew of trans human salvagers*

…I wanna be a sentient swarm of bees… I bet they never get headaches

[literallymechanical]

Very excellent book if you can handle a bit of existential dread. Includes one of my favorite depictions of FTL horror in fiction so far. Took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that faction is called the Parthenon because they reproduce via parthenogenesis. And of course it wouldn’t be a Tchaikovsky book without a sentient swarm of bugs in there somewhere. Five stars, highly recommend.

[souldagger]

commission of solace and kris from the final architecture books by adrian tchaikovsky for @matrose! women 🥰

[the-space-0wl]

My partner introduced me to Adrian Tchaikovsky's work, and I started reading The Final Architecture saga.

Unfortunately for both of us, we enjoy fiction very differentely, meaning he wants to talk about the accurate segmentation of the arthropods-like or worm-like alien species, while I want to picture sending the enslavor assholes off into the void

[ythealleycat]

Hello hi guess who finished Eyes of the Void last night and now needs to draw Saint Idris, patron of incomprehensible truths real bad

[rin-kagamemes]

I’m not necessarily in a reading slump cause I have read 15 books this month but they’ve been mostly nonfiction so I’m definitely in a fiction slump after reading Jasmine Throne and (unfortunately) absolutely hating it. Locked Tomb people please help I need book recs to make me want to read SFF again

[approximateknowledge]

reading shards of earth and getting gender envy from the hivers