Elder Race, Adrian Tchaikovsky
Elder Race, Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Elder Race

Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrator: John Lee

Unabridged: 4 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/27/2023

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe.

Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way.

But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it).

But Elder Nyr isn't a sorcerer, and he is forbidden to help, and his knowledge of science tells him the threat cannot possibly be a demon . . .

About Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the ten-book Shadows of the Apt series, starting with Empire in Black and Gold. His other works include the novel Children of Time, which won the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the short story collection Feast and Famine, and the novellas The Bloody Deluge and Even in the Cannon's Mouth. He has been shortlisted for the David Gemmell Legend Award and the British Fantasy Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on November 14, 2021

At first, I had the impression that I was reading something from Steven Brust, which, I should mention, is not a bad thing at all. But this tale was much more about Clarke's First Law and with a cool anthropology twist and an old school sword and sorcery couched firmly, and formally, in a transhuman......more

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on November 19, 2021

On sale now! 4+ stars for this great fantasy/SF mashup. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clarke. This short novel is about the intersection between highly advanced technology and a society that views it as magic, along with the linguistic difficultie......more

Goodreads review by Allen on November 17, 2021

4.5 stars! My first Tchaikovsky novella and my first of his sci-fi. Loved it. My full review: [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Gillian on May 29, 2022

This was a very interesting and unique science-fiction book about science, magic, cultural differences and social issues. This book follows Lynesse who is the Fourth Daughter of the Queen and she is always getting in the way. When a demon starts creating havoc on the land Lynesse makes a pact with t......more

A fun, quick intersection of Fantasy and SF with a dash of Cosmic Horror. I found Nyr fascinating as he struggled with his role as a Gandalf-like wizard to the people on the planet as he dealt with his own human struggles.......more