A city, riddled with old magic and old deities, is occupied by a people saying they’re seeking perfection. The resistance is as much a reflection and continuation of pre-existing powerplays as it is aimed against the occupier. When will be the day to rise? Another great world building story by Tchaikovsky.
Tag: fantasy
Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The prison at the end of the universe…. human evolution and science is at a dead end, the sun is changing and forcing rapid evolution everywhere else. This book made an impression on me, twisting multiple times and adding yet another layer to the world building and the story. A gripping story in a highly oppressive setting. I appreciate Tchaikovsky’s SF a lot.
The Shuddering City by Sharon Shinn
A continent has been constructed from 4 parts by the gods, or were they aliens? Now the continent threatens to tear itself apart again. Unless the right people are found to feed the machine that keeps it all together.
A fantasy novel by Sharon Shinn, who has written many books that mostly don’t look appealing to me. This one was entertaining enough though.
The Shuddering City by Sharon Shinn
A continent has been constructed from 4 parts by the gods, or were they aliens? Now the continent threatens to tear itself apart again. Unless the right people are found to feed the machine that keeps it all together.
Device and Desires, by K.J. Parker
A capable engineer treats the world as a machine in order to exact revenge for a personal injustice. The enormous human consequences are regrettable collateral damage but an unavoidable part of the logic, at least to the engineer. Set in a medieval world in which one anomalous city state is a guilds-run bureaucratised industrial power.
Published 2005, Part 1 of a trilogy. K.J. Parker is a pseudonym for Tom Holt.
How Long ’til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin
This is a collection of short stories by N.K. Jemisin (I’ve been reading her work in the past weeks, similar to how I read all books by other authors when I encounter something I liked.). The title attracted me, and I didn’t know it was a collection of short stories. Jemisin says she started writing short stories as stepping stones towards novel writing. She didn’t want to at first, did it following advice, but came to enjoy it.
Some of the stories are recognisable from her novels, where elements got re-used, or entire worlds flowed from the short story. There are many other stories in there, which allows one to hope for more novels 🙂
I also read Emergency Skin, a story not in this collection.