Shards of Earth

De: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrado por: Sophie Aldred

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all.

"Tchaikovsky is the breakout star of contemporary British SF." —Guardian

The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery ...

Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers.

After earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared—and Idris and his kind became obsolete.Now, fifty years later, Idris and his crew have discovered something strange abandoned in space. It's clearly the work of the Architects—but are they returning? And if so, why?

Hunted by gangsters, cults and governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy hunting for answers. For they now possess something of incalculable value, that many would kill to obtain.

The Final Architecture

Shards of Earth

Eyes of the Void

Lords of Uncreation

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human."—Patrick Ness on Children of Time

"Brilliant science fiction and far out world building"—James McAvoy on Children of Time

"This is superior stuff, tackling big themes - gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness - with brio."—Financial Times on Children of Time

"Inventive, funny and engrossing, this book lingers long after you close it"—Tade Thompson, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Rosewater on The Doors of Eden

"Full of sparking, speculative invention . . . The Doors of Eden is a terrific timeslip / lost world romp in the grand tradition of Turtledove, Hoyle, even Conan Doyle. If you liked Primeval, read this book"—Stephen Baxter on The Doors of Eden

"What a ride . . . talks like big-brained science fiction and runs like a fleet-footed political thriller"—John Scalzi on The Doors of Eden

"With The Doors of Eden, Tchaikovsky has created a fantastic and highly imaginative new genre: evolution SF"—Peter F. Hamilton on The Doors of Eden

Space opera!

Great story with obviously more to come. And, the pronunciation of hegemony is correct - for UK English.

The story is incredible, The recording is garbage.

I have listened to at least a dozen of his books. He is, without a doubt, the Arthur C Clark of this generation. The story, although not one of his best, is brilliantly written and richly described with characters that you want to care about. Sadly, the recording is of such poor quality as to be distracting. It sounds like a scratchy record played in a 1920's gramophone. Additionally, for some incredible reason, the voice actor chose to make the main character sound like an epileptic stutterer. The fits and starts of his speech pattern make him difficult to understand.

Excellent book but the narration didn't work

As others have said, while the book is excellent, the narration just doesn't fit the dialogue. The narrator is very talented but her heavy British accent and high pitched voice just didn't fit the text. I finished the book but I almost gave up many times. Many of the characters sounded like they had voices out of a 15th century pub.

This kind of goes on and on.

I’m not going to knock the book or the story but for me it just kept dragging on and on and I just wanted it to get where it was going faster. The story on the other hand was fine getting there when ever it felt like it.

Tighten up the plot and stream line it and it would be far better.

The over arching threat is talked about and talked about and flash backs a few times. The books threat doesn’t show up till the last hour of the book. Yeah that means almost 18 hours of the book is filled with character building for the lack of a better word.

There is action along the way but it seemingly, as far as this book is concerned, not tied to the major threat of the world killers.

It feels like I came in half way into a story and the person telling the story is long winded and keeps adding more and more onto the story as embellishments.

I may read further books but after feeling like I just did a 20 mile hike I think I’ll hold off for now.

Meandering and Fluffy

There are some really great ideas here, but it is really hard to follow and some of the most excellent science fiction pieces are woefully short. The author leans on these characters heavily and it breaks the novel because they are weak and ill-defined. I feel like I could immediately write an entire chapter per character to flesh them out and an entire book for each mind-blowing idea that the author just skips over lightly with total disregard for how juicy they are. Lots of potential is lost here and it's a slog to make it through. I feel sort of sick and dizzy and disorganized even though there really isn't that much here to bite onto.