The Doors of Eden

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If you like long, boring science fiction stories that mixes a lot of books and movies you are already familiar with, go ahead. You won’t find any interesting characters, only a happy lot of politically correctly diverse ones, without this bringing anything to the plot whatsoever. The author tries too hard here. Way too hard! If I got it correctly, they even tried to explain “transgender” to an alien entity. Oh, which reminds me, every alien creature from another earth with any kind of intelligence is smart enough to get human language and culture through fancy translation devices. Right. This fun, creepy tribute to the works of C.S. Lewis from Tchaikovsky (Children of Memory) finds children’s television presenter Felix “Harry” Bodie having a tough time. He can’t escape the Continue reading » The tension in our story comes from reality collapsing (no biggie, obviously). A group of scientists across the parallel Earths realize that realities are starting to bleed into one another and citizens from different Earths are leaking into non-native parallel worlds and scaring the locals. They also realize that these leaks are heralding the end of all existence entirely, and decide to band together to see if they can maybe stop it.

THE DOORS OF EDEN by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Book Review) THE DOORS OF EDEN by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Book Review)

I’m the one in the corner with my nose in a book. Chances are I’m soaring with dragons right now, but when I’m in reality, I’m a reader, writer, blogger and tea-drinker. In a nutshell, The Doors of Eden has a simple premise: the end of the universe. Not just ours, but every division that’s been occurring since the beginning of time.Inventive, funny and engrossing, this book lingers long after you close it"— Tade Thompson, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Rosewater Lots of evolutionary biology. If evolutionary speculation and analysis of how life on our world could have evolved differently isn’t your jam, this probably isn’t for you. Make no mistake, this should skip your ‘to be read’ pile entirely. Instead, it belongs at the very top of your ‘must read’ shortlist! I don’t know how he’s done it, but Adrian has managed to write a gripping adventure, peopled with amazing characters—while also giving us the most awe-inspiring, inventive, breathtaking glimpse into the imagined inner workings of the universe and creation itself. I have never read anything like this. And if you read The Doors of Eden, it will enrich your life. Below Adrian has given us an insight into what inspired this book. This is followed by a look at that plot! Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Tchaikovsky (Children of Time) wows with this inventive and empathetic story of courage, science, and magic. Though Lynesse is the mere Fourth Daughter of the Continue reading » The Doors of Eden takes the evolutionary world-building I used for Children of Time and Children of Ruin and applies it to all the ‘What ifs’ of the past. It’s a book that feeds on a lot of my personal obsessions (not just spiders*). The universe-building is perhaps the broadest in scope of anything I’ve ever written. At the same time, The Doors of Eden is a book set in the here and now, and even though there’s more than one ‘here and now’ in the book, I spent most of a summer trekking around researching locations like a film producer to try and get things as right as possible. Sometimes, when you plan a journey into the very strange, it works best if you start somewhere familiar.

The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky – Book Review The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky – Book Review

There are certain codings for how a creature moves that are designed to awaken a deep and ancestral unease. Lee had seen them all in those fake videos. Make something that’s too close to human for comfort; make something that jolts into sudden, scurrying motion like a spider. Design something that bends and flexes wrong, but not too wrong. There was a language of horripilation in creature design; ask any SFX studio that’s done a horror film or two. The fabric between multiple earths is weakening allowing multiple portals to open between various timelines. Four years before the events in the story take place two young women, Lee and Mal, cryptid, or monster, hunters, went out searching for a mysterious ‘bird-man’ who had been caught on a farmer’s CCT cameras. Unfortunately not only did they find them, Mal disappeared.We start hunting monsters. We end up deep in space with three different species trying to save the world by stopping dimensions crashing into each other. The lesson here is that the Earth doesn’t care; that bad things happen; that it could so easily have been us.” Inventive, funny and engrossing, this book lingers long after you close it' - Tade Thompson, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Rosewater When reading Tchaikovsky's science fiction work I always get the feeling that I am reading something that is extremely special. The Doors of Eden come across as intelligent, well-researched, and incredibly detailed. Some of the science-specific language and the interludes written by the fictional Professor Ruth Emerson were a bit "over my head" at times yet this is possibly intentional because as a reader I learned to understand the complexities just as the characters themselves did. I'm afraid that I did skim-read a couple of the interludes to return to the main bulk of the story until I understood their importance and how they actually fit with the overall narrative. If I reread this novel I will not make this mistake again.

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Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson What Are We Writing About When We Write About Ghosts? 2 hours agoWhile it might be exciting to think of new people and different worlds, the problem Tchaikovsky gives his characters is that the fraying of the fabric is also leading the the end of the universe. If the joint minds of science from all the dimensions can’t figure out a way to control the holes it won’t matter what you evolved into, all life will be dead.