I know it might be weird to have Perhaps the Stars instead of Too Like the Lightning, but Perhaps the Stars was the one where I was like, "...wow!"
Perhaps the Stars makes perfect sense to me as the pick for Terra Ignota! To start with, I do feel TLTL suffers from being only half a book -- I'd be far more on board with the combo of TLTL + 7 Surrenders (as it was intended to be the first volume) -- but also, yeah, Perhaps the Stars was the book that blew me away most of the four, and the fact that it stuck the landing with that complex a setup is the thing that makes the whole series most extraordinary for me. So, I'm in complete agreement there!
I think because they look like Epic Doorstoppers, which I've mostly given up on :)
Heh, yeah, the reason I've read and loved Elder Race and have yet to finish anything else by Tchaikovsky is that the rest of them that are interesting to me do look like Epic Doorstoppers, and I mostly can't deal with those anymore, except where I've already invested the time in the series.
Of course the one I always think of is Semley's Necklace, but that's a short story.
Oh right, for some reason I keep completely forgetting about Semley's Necklace. That too! Though I guess they already had Ursula LeGuin on the list and it's not like one can argue Left Hand of Darkness is unworthy.
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Date: 2024-07-27 12:23 am (UTC)Perhaps the Stars makes perfect sense to me as the pick for Terra Ignota! To start with, I do feel TLTL suffers from being only half a book -- I'd be far more on board with the combo of TLTL + 7 Surrenders (as it was intended to be the first volume) -- but also, yeah, Perhaps the Stars was the book that blew me away most of the four, and the fact that it stuck the landing with that complex a setup is the thing that makes the whole series most extraordinary for me. So, I'm in complete agreement there!
I think because they look like Epic Doorstoppers, which I've mostly given up on :)
Heh, yeah, the reason I've read and loved Elder Race and have yet to finish anything else by Tchaikovsky is that the rest of them that are interesting to me do look like Epic Doorstoppers, and I mostly can't deal with those anymore, except where I've already invested the time in the series.
Of course the one I always think of is Semley's Necklace, but that's a short story.
Oh right, for some reason I keep completely forgetting about Semley's Necklace. That too! Though I guess they already had Ursula LeGuin on the list and it's not like one can argue Left Hand of Darkness is unworthy.