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  "description": "Children of Memory takes a sharp narrative turn from the two novels that preceded it and it's not better for it. It's different. There are still spiders, Nodan interlocutors, post-scarcity voyages, but those voyages get trapped on Imir much like the imagined colony in the alien device. I tend to be laser-focused on sci-fi that — for better or worse — is similar to The Expanse series. I love it. I want more of it. This series diverged greatly from that, but succeeded in satisfying that craving (at least for the first two entries). Tchaikovsky is — without a doubt — a gifted writer (I'm starting Alien Clay next) and the fact that he lost me for a good amount of this — intentionally or otherwise (that discontinuity played into the ultimate explanation of Miranda's experience on Imir quite well) — and get me invested in what proved to be a very satisfying conclusion speaks to that skill. I liked this, I loved the first two.",
  "path": "/reading/books/9780316466516/children-of-memory",
  "publishedAt": "2025-03-17T00:00:00Z",
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  "tags": [
    "scifi",
    "fiction"
  ],
  "title": "Children of Memory"
}