Lords of Uncreation: An epic space adventure from a master storyteller (The Final Architecture Book 3)

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It seemed poor Idris was having the same dreadful experience descending into the unreal over and over. Shards of Earth is narrated from several different perspectives, most notably those of Idris and Solace. Most people here have read books 1 and 2, so I’m going to assume you know the premise of the series and aren’t really looking for the sell.

For me, Tchaikovsky’s weaker works are The Doors of Eden and the fantasy novel City of Last Chances.I've seen some shade thrown his way in this sub before, as well as a lot of love, so I'm just wondering what people here think of his work generally.

The guy just keeps reinventing the wheel, breathing new life into old tropes, and in the last 5 years or so, has quickly become one of my favorite authors. The second book featured tense action scenes, a conspiracy by a human faction and an installation on a hellish planet with weird alien life. Overall the book was full of tight suspense, with witty dialogue and brilliantly developed characters. Lords of Uncreation opens from the viewpoint of Andecka, an Intermediary whose brain has been carved up to make her sensitive to the mind of an Architect.Irdis, the oldest Int still working, has been haunted by the 'presence' for a long time, but it never goes away, or even gets easier. Now with a diminished crew serving the whims of an alien gangster they manage to take up a central role in Idris’ final effort to stop the destruction of sentient life on settled planets. My thanks to Orbit and Netgalley for an advance review copy of Lords of Uncreation on which to base this review, consisting solely of my own opinions.

I like space opera that is at the side of the downtrodden, the fugitives and the hurting people, and Tchaikovsky does not let money or power have the final word. But what has been interesting about this trilogy as it has unfolded is that the balls he threw in the air in the first book haven't quite landed where they might. On the strength of this last book in The Final Architecture I think this is my favorite series of his and this is my favorite sci fi book of his that I've read. Even when facing imminent destruction at the hands of the Architects, a couple of factions of humans decide it is time to strike their enemies, even though they need all the firepower and transport spaceships they can get to save as much of humanity and other species as possible. The good guys rally and mount a breathless, last minute, do or die mission ( that lasts the final third of the book).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. He made it sound as grudging as he possibly could, and was secretly, wretchedly grateful that here, at the end of all things, he had people like this who had his back. We follow Idris as he moves step by step more deeply into unspace and sees and understands more and more of its structure.

The final encounter with the ultimate enemy, when it finally occurs, ends up being a little bit underwhelming, but I was grateful for the last chapter where you find out where everyone goes afterwards. The final wound comes with the resolution: it occurs nearly in passing and is not referenced again: very unsatisfying.I've read quite a bit of Tchaikovsky including Children of Time, Children of Ruin, Children of Memory, and 5 books of The Shadows of The Apt. 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. Arī zinātniskās detaļas stāstam ir līmenī, nav nekādu iekšēju pretrunu un uz beigām pazūd arī maģijas piegarša, jo viss top atklāts.