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Adrian Tchaikovsky no longer condifers himself a Hugo Award winner. (adriantchaikovsky.com)

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Based on this information, I cannot consider myself a Hugo winner and will not be citing the 2023 award result in my biographical details, or on this site.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I got into Tchaikovsky after reading thought Dennis E. Taylor's Bobiverse series and while I liked those books, they were always very lacking in creative alien designs. The Pav, Deltans and Quinlans are all pretty much just different flavors of human-like.

Children of Time on the other hand had some truly alien aliens, even though they technically aren't even aliens. The way the spiders society and industry functions is so different from humans and more interesting for it.

I know the second book of the CoT series isn't as highly regarded but I love the antagonist and how it works. Fair to say that I have lost all interests of "going on an adventure"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I enjoyed Children of Ruin. I think the only reason people don't rate it as much is because of just how good CoT is. Children of Memory feels like the kind of book that'll be better (and make a lot more sense) on a second read.