“How much worse to think yourself wise, and still be as ignorant as one who knew themselves a fool?” Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she’s an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Although she … Continue reading Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Sciencefiction
Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
“The whole audacious, ridiculous plan of his had worked out in every particular, save that he had failed to adjust for the destructive stupidity of the rest of humanity.” Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- but it was their … Continue reading Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky