Beyond Reality discussion

Please check in here if you are reading or planning to read Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Any first impressions?

No spoilers here, please!

I tried to read this last month and it just didn't appeal to me. I feel like this one is more of a wrong time book, nothing wrong with it in particular, but I was not in the right mood for it.

I read this a while back and won't be rereading. But I will jump in with the discussion as my memory allows.

I do very much love this series and I hope those who are new to it enjoy it. :)

This book was my introduction to Adrian Tchaikovsky and I fell in love with his writing. Looking forward to the discussion!

(...not for the arachnophobic...)

I’m excited to try this one. I have it on Kindle but I might need to keep the room lights on for the creepy parts. :)

This will be my first read of this particular novel by Tchaikovsky, but I loved Alien Clay and Shards of Earth. Hoping I'll like this too.

This is clearly his best book. When people who know I like SF ask me for a recommendation I give them
the name of this book.

I read this in 2023 (along with the rest of the series) and gave this book a 10. Not planning to read it at this time.

I’m glad I was encouraged by others to try it because I had read Cage of Souls with the group in 2022 (it was BotM) and thought it was awfully bleak. I thought maybe this author was not for me, but then I read the Children of Time series and, after that, Shadows of the Apt, and liked all of those. So I guess it was just that one book that wasn’t right for me.

Agree that this is the best of his to start with. I’d put Cage of Souls toward the bottom of that list. I really don’t feel it is representative of his overall work

I loved this book, and I agree it is one of the author’s best!