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Decades later, conflict arises between the Parthenon (an all-female group of clones) and the Council of Human Interests, or Hugh. I'm aware that I'm probably just posting this because I'm in that withdrawal state after you finish a book/series that you loved so much that you grieve a bit when it's over. It is here in the Eye that the Ints – among them, Idris – have been hooked up to machinery that carefully records physical life signs as they delve into unspace. There were some rather poignant parts with some of the characters including Ash, Ahab and the Hivers. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.
It doesn't help their case that there are a huge number of characters and species (often poorly explained) that are interspersed and interacting.The third volume of what should NOT have been a trilogy, Lords of Uncreation bears the greater burden of the chronic bloating, padding, filler, and regurgitation that stretches this story out for well over 1500 pages.
The mysterious thread throughout the series is definitely resolved in unexpected ways and it totally worked for me.There needs to be epic art of junior plastered all over everything so I can celebrate a new favorite sci-fi thing. I similarly found this to a lesser extent in Eyes of the Void, but I had bigger issues with the lack of characterization in the first half of that novel. The crew of the Vulture God, the spy for Hugh and the self-anointed aliens - the Essiel - are of course, in the middle of all of the events.
It’s a great conclusion to a great series, and some of the most fun I’ve had with SF in a good while. But the absolute silliest, stupidest part was when the "great voice" starts speaking to them and Kris uses her lawyer skills to argue with omnisentient beings who so far have been thinking beyond human thought but are now suddenly caught in a shitty word trap as they hand wave away all explanations. 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.The central mystery surrounding the originators, unspace and the architects remains thoroughly compelling, and the epic planetary scale chaos is most gratifying, but the science (usually Tchaikovsky's strong point and wow factor) and character development remain weak spots, the latter in part due to POV overload.
Shards of Earth is narrated from several different perspectives, most notably those 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.
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