Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: "Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, 2)" by Adrian Tchaikovsky Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:53:36 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2025 06:53:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="dc2db3c6411903fe2023419d7af99f3e"; logging-data="2424413"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+px4HXdYUrRNNDblde8jox/SSTzU4+VuM=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:adlHHrq/55D8gNej4CjVqaU0toU= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US On 4/17/2025 2:12 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: > "Eyes of the Void (The Final Architecture, 2)" by Adrian Tchaikovsky >    https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Void-Final-Architecture-2/dp/0316705918/ > > Book number two of a three book space opera science fiction series.  I > read the well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Orbit > in 2022 that I bought new on Amazon.  I have NOT ordered the third book > in the series as I almost DNF'd (Did Not Finish) this book several > times.  I may change my mind about the third book but, who knows? > > Earth was the first human planet attacked and destroyed by the > Architects, a moon sized race of beings that travel through unspace. > Billions of humans and aliens died on Earth, unable to get on one of the > thousands of overcrowded space ships evacuating from Earth.  Earth was > turned into a spiral object with the core ejected, typical of the > Architect's massive gravitational forces.  Earth was warned by a > survivor of another race destroyed by the Architects but the humans did > not believe it until too late. > > The universe of the story is incredibly rich.  There are many alien > races and many planets, many colonies of all races.  The human race has > splintered into several groups that are at total odds with each other. > An alien race found the humans a hundred years before and kindly shared > their unspace technology with them.  Space Ships can navigate on known > paths through unspace but going off the known paths requires an > Intermediary Navigator (an Int), a rare human who has been surgically > and chemically modified to be like the first human Int, St. Xavienne. > Some of the best of the Ints like St. Xavienne can barely talk to the > Architects. > > The book was not as good as the first book.  Maybe it was too wordy, not > enough editing.  Maybe there were too many protagonists.  Maybe the > author tried to make the Architects too sympathetic.  I have a bookcase > full of books that I have DNF'd, I do not want to add more so I stuck it > out. > > The author has a website at: >    https://adriantchaikovsky.com/ > > My rating:  4 out of 5 stars > Amazon rating:  4.4 out of 5 stars (8,697 reviews) > > Lynn I explained the no DNF on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1k1l3ig/eyes_of_the_void_the_final_architecture_2_by/ Lynn