For reasons unclear even to himself he subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives. This picks up just where the prior installment left off and utilized the same main characters as previously, oscillating among them as the narrative unfolds. 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. You feel part of the ragtag crew of the Vulture God, you respect the Partheni for their strength, and empathise with the Ints for their troubles. Gleichzeitig wird nicht jedes Mysterium bis ins Detail aufgeklärt, was mir gefällt, denn so wird es nicht banal.

Our main protagonist of the series, Idris, was one of the first generation of Intermediaries, or 'Ints', who somehow made contact with the Architects and then they retreated, leaving the planet alone. Here everything is fleshed out and written in a way where it's easier to grasp as pieces of the story start getting resolved.Intermediary Idris Telemmier helps kill an Architect at Berlenhof, turning the tide of the conflict decades after the destruction of Earth. The first book had the very interesting set up, where the threat of the 'architects' became clear, the 'Essiel' were introduced and we followed the crew of the 'Vulture God' and came very close to them. Any sort of link or text post is welcome as long as it is about printed / text / static SF material. I think Tchaikovsky characters are always engaging as well, coming across as very human, flawed, but not too flawed to make them unsympathetic, and mostly heroic despite themselves. 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”.

Overall the book was full of tight suspense, with witty dialogue and brilliantly developed characters. Sure the prose is slightly purple; the technobabble is piled high and deep and it's more science fantasy than science fiction. I’ve been a fan since I first discovered his epic fantasy Shadows of the Apt series, and his swing into science fiction has led to brilliant books like Children of Time and Cage of Souls. Taken as a whole, the trilogy is certainly not one of his lesser series, yet at the same time I find it doesn’t excite me the way his other novels do.Arī zinātniskās detaļas stāstam ir līmenī, nav nekādu iekšēju pretrunu un uz beigām pazūd arī maģijas piegarša, jo viss top atklāts. Not all is at is seems at the surface, and eventually, an unholy alliance is formed, upsetting the balance of power. At the end I think I could have done without books 2 and 3 and would have preferred one standalone and closed novel with less padding and all the plotlines tidied up. The matters of existential threat and plain human petty power trips are nicely balanced, as are space battles and genuine human (and nonhuman) moments. Kindle edition, Location 5163) He seems not to care that his very life depends on his being dragged out and revived to keep him, or at least his mind, from being lost forever to those who know him in the real world.

Which we do, for the second half of the book, and I had a great deal of trouble putting the book down. I don't think it's bad, it just became and focused on the wrong things in a series I thought would be character driven and instead was meant to be a huge action series instead. Which is a fine characteristic in theory that I would appreciate but seems to come out of nowhere and is part of this weird attempt to make her more of a main character than she is. Why torture it to those formats with all this padding and endless reminiscing, if you can tell a compelling story in one novel of average length? Idris is convinced that the solution lies in Unspace, but the loose coalition of alien races standing against the Architects have different ideas about how to survive .The other is providing a way for our relatively mundane protagonists to fight back without straining credulity.

Idris manages to contact the Architect and learns that some unknown force is directing them to destroy inhabited planets.Lords Of Uncreation has the misfortune to belong to a glut of space opera where the antagonist is "an unknowable force from before time hellbent on stopping space travel". 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.