Lords of Uncreation: An epic space adventure from a master storyteller (The Final Architecture Book 3)

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Which we do, for the second half of the book, and I had a great deal of trouble putting the book down.

Yet as a someone who judges books more as a journey than a destination, my excitement was dulled by the time that the story picked up. On the strength of this last book in The Final Architecture I think this is my favorite series of his and this is my favorite sci fi book of his that I've read. The Final Architecture series is a classic space opera with ridiculously fast space travel, all sorts of aliens, spaceships, space arcs and space colonies, and - of course - a ragtag crew of misfits.Then there is unspace -- dimensions outside of reality that drive almost everyone insane shortly after entry. And taking all three books in the 'Final Architecture'-trilogy together, this is one of the, if not the best modern space opara, with an imagination that is hard to find anywhere else in the genre, combining vivid action, engaging characters and awe-inducing ideas.

For example, conflict between Hugh and the Parthenon is examined through the characters of Idris and Solace. What's worse is how utterly useless everyone else becomes in the face of the external unspace metaphysical threat, they are pretty much just standing around as the author struggles to find stuff for them to fill the pages. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.The characters have become some of my favorites and they all get plenty to do with great development amd satisfying arcs. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Lords of Uncreation is the triumph of the series, when so many details snap into focus, and I get awed all over again at the scope and depth of Tchaikovsky’s imagination. Best known for his enthralling Children of Time series, Adrian Tchaikovsky is an award-winning British science fiction and fantasy author. Then Olli is made a hero for the rest of the book through Essiel magic and gets to live a happy lesbian life at the end.There are exciting action sequences, both cosmic and hand to hand (the set piece almost exactly halfway through the book is spectacular). Most people here have read books 1 and 2, so I’m going to assume you know the premise of the series and aren’t really looking for the sell. The matters of existential threat and plain human petty power trips are nicely balanced, as are space battles and genuine human (and nonhuman) moments.

It's an atrocious arc for a character I praised Tchaikovsky for writing in the first book as a justifiably righteous pain in the ass. Also, to my mind, the confrontation at the end felt a bit too abstract, and the solution just a bit underwhelming compared to the all encompasing threat of the Architects. Can we talk about how freaking amazing all these alien species and cultures and worlds and just NEW imaginings this book inspires? It is pointless to the rest of the novel and story; it treads THE EXACT SAME GROUND as the second half of Eyes of the Void.The frequency with which they are entering and being pulled out of that place to deal with yet more inconsequential filler turned the book into a slog. The planets under attack – and that is potentially every world of sentient beings – fall back on launching people into permanent life in space as a way of hopefully escaping further notice of the Architects. So we immediately get a deep sense of the scale of the conflict, the vastness of the Architects and the uselessness of conventional defenses of the sentient beings opposing them. Plus a serious threat not just to humanity, but all the sentient life in this Universe, where there just may be something sinister hiding at the center, deep under the thin skin of what we perceive as “real”.