Thoughts on this series? I love it to death but I know the focus on worldbuilding rather than character stories in the later two books is divisive for a lot of people. Hopes and expectations for Children of Strife as well
>>24922242About to start the 3rd book in the series (Children of Memory) and I'm loving it. Though I was surprised that the epilogue of the 2nd book revealed so much about the future.Makes you think, though. If we do encounter a truly alien race of people, how will we communicate with them? There's no guarantee that they will communicate through any of the senses we recognize as humans. Sight, smell, hearing, touch, etc.
>>24922311Memory gets a little bit preachy on some of the philosophical stuff but in general it's a fun ride, I fucking LOVE the ending. >If we do encounter a truly alien race of people, how will we communicate with them?Tchaikovsky's newer book Shroud's main focus is actually on aliens and humans having such an incompatible understanding of "intelligence" we don't even recognize each other as sapient. Mostly because the aliens are blind and use EM waves to communicate. It's really good and raises even more concerns with the likelihood of communicating with another species
>>24922242I only read the first book and thought it was atrocious.
