The Doors of Eden

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrated by: Sophie Aldred

Length: 18 hrs and 3 mins

Publisher's summary

From the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden is an extraordinary feat of the imagination and an enthralling adventure about parallel universes and the monsters that they hide.

They thought we were safe. They were wrong.

Four years ago, two girls went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor. Only one came back.

Lee thought she'd lost Mal, but now she's miraculously returned. But what happened that day on the moors? And where has she been all this time? Mal's reappearance hasn't gone unnoticed by MI5 officers either, and Lee isn't the only one with questions.

Julian Sabreur is investigating an attack on top physicist Kay Amal Khan. This leads Julian to clash with agents of an unknown power - and they may or may not be human. His only clue is grainy footage, showing a woman who supposedly died on Bodmin Moor.

Dr. Khan's research was theoretical; then she found cracks between our world and parallel Earths. Now these cracks are widening, revealing extraordinary creatures. And as the doors crash open, anything could come through.

"Tchaikovsky weaves a masterful tale...a suspenseful joyride through the multiverse." (Booklist)

©2020 Adrian Tchaikovsky (P)2020 Hachette Audio

Another Amazing Work from a Living Legend

I’ve loved every one of the many Tchaikovsky books I’ve read and this one is among the finest. I think the way he builds worlds with aspects of hard Sci-Fi, historical fiction, magical realism, and epic fantasy is in a class of its own. What a gem of a book & credit due also to the fabulous narrator. I hope to visit this storyline again. Truly wonderful.

in the end a beautiful reality

finding peace with chaos and realizing that chaos is infinite and exciting .. I enjoyed every single minute

Giving me a headache

I am really trying to finish this book, but it's not looking good. The story is interesting enough; the speculative biology is quite impressive and well described.
Main gripes are with the narrator's just terrible American accent (otherwise she does a really good job,) and the rampant overuse of the term "plug ugly" to describe every character from a specific alternate world. I swear it's thrown out every other sentence in sections of this book.
I still have about 7 hrs left of listening, hope I make it...

thought provoking.

while somewhat lacking in the emotional side that stands a Sci-fi thriller up, it never lacked for action nor did it let the mind stagnate on the otherwise mind bending physics the story asked the audience to take as a given, yet as disconcerting as the theoretical sciences presented it was never so far as to be unbelievable as well as never left me with a sense of not understanding the how of it all.

tldr
good story that won't leave you feeling ignorant or unsatisfied.

A+

I loved this book. Especially looking back at possible other Edens. I can't wait for the next book

Another great story

Again, Mr Tchaikovsky imagines a world (ahem, worlds,) where evolution has gone with a different branch achieving sentience. Unlike classic sci-fi movies of yesteryear, these creatures are not necessarily hominid, and not only look differently but think, feel, and communicate in vastly different ways then we do. Throw in a bit of parallel universes and alternative earth timelines, and he’s given us a new experience with the ideas he’s presented in his other novels.

The only criticism I have is that the characters were not entirely compelling. I didn’t care about them or what happened to them because I didn’t feel like I knew them. This book is fairly complicated as is, but if more time was spent on character development I might have enjoyed it more.

Overall I recommend.

won't be getting another book from this author

not sure why but i think you really have to concentrate hard to follow. also, there wasn't a lot of depth. more like he wants a movie to be made out of it with some smart concepts. anyway, not happy i wasted time on it.

it may be great for you though! just not me.

A good story, but it needed some edits,

There’s too much about too many similar characters to care about any one, and while the story deals with the notion of others, it just made them aliens really, which is fine, but it just felt formulaic of his other works. It is a fun listen, and while I took huge gaps between listening was still able to pick up where I left off most times, so take my initial comments with a grain of salt

Magical

Within the first chapter I felt that rare magic like I was entering the world of Narnia again for the first time. Excellent narration and a story that that will illicit wonder.

Loved it

Not Children of Time, but that’s almost impossible to top. The Doors of Eden was a fascinating peek behind the curtain ably explained by a series of lectures and then acted out real time by a host of characters. The “human” characters weren’t all cookie cutter, but were the real people we should all be familiar with by now - thank you for that!