Children of Time

Excelente libro

Ainda não li o livro por causa de outras leituras que estou fazendo no momento.No entanto, deixo registrada a minha satisfação quanto à entrega (do pedido cuja chegada levou 10 dias) e com o estado do produto, que veio muito bem embalado e sem partes amassadas.Espero que minha leitura e estudos com a língua inglesa possam ser beneficiados com essa história envolvente e cheia de aventuras! Recomendo a todos que estão interessados!

If we encountered intelligent life on another planet, would we even be able to recognize it as such?This question is really the driving force of the book.This book explores a lot of big ideas and concepts, but that question is the one that is at the center of it all.The book follows two story threads that happen over the course of thousands of years; a dying race floating through space, trying to find a new home, and another race rising into intelligence on a planet that was not originally meant for them. It tells this millennia spanning story through a series of connected vignettes that time jump with almost every chapter.If you're looking for a very character driven story, this is not the book for you. The characters are well done, but they are not necessarily what the book is about. This book is about bigger things, things that can only be explored over the course of vast amounts of time.And it is masterfully written. The prose was a little heavy for me at first, but a few chapters in I was hooked, and already beginning to love the prose.This is definitely the kind of book that will leave you severely disappointed if you go in with the wrong expectations as to what kind of book it's going to be. If you're going into it expecting some big space opera full of interesting and very compelling characters, you will be disappointed.Judging this book according to what kind of book it's meant to be, I would say it succeeds on almost every level. SPOILERS: it got me to see a race of spiders as more than "the other" for goodness sake!And society and technological development of the spiders was extremely well executed, as well as very imaginative yet grounded in complete believability -- a hard balance to maintain.It's a bit long, but I believe that length is very necessary for properly telling the story and exploring those concepts that it puts forth.Overall, I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves great sci-fi that spans huge lengths of time and is very much about exploring certain questions, not necessarily about a group of characters doing stuff.

I liked the evolutionary perspective and the kind of drama that ensues in different stages of societal development. That the characters kind of ‘repeat’ (different individuals are being given the same names in different historical moments, because they stand in for certain traits) worked well for me.I also read the second and third part of the series and the first is by far the best of them. The second part is okay, but the third part is disappointing (see separate review). Children of Time can easily stand on its own, so if you are hesitant to commit to the series I would still recommend reading just this one.

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