Zivan reseñó Cage of Souls de Adrian Tchaikovsky
One of Tchaikovsky's Best
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I read Cage of Souls after reading Tchaikovsky's 2024 penal colony novel Alien Clay.
It was interesting to view such similar premises that play out so differently.
An authoritarian regime that refuses to acknowledge scientific reality sends its dissidence to a deadly penal colony. The complexity of reality we discover along the way paves the way to a new future.
While Alien Clay is set in a universe where humans colonized space and are exporting their imperialist ideals. Cage of Souls is set at humanities twilight, after it failed to leave for the stars.
In Clay, the focus is on political dissent, dogma and science. In Souls, the dissidents are a mixed bag of the disenfranchised that have run afoul of the elite, each with their own agendas. More like in, City of Last Chances.
I really enjoyed the richness of the world, with such …
I read Cage of Souls after reading Tchaikovsky's 2024 penal colony novel Alien Clay.
It was interesting to view such similar premises that play out so differently.
An authoritarian regime that refuses to acknowledge scientific reality sends its dissidence to a deadly penal colony. The complexity of reality we discover along the way paves the way to a new future.
While Alien Clay is set in a universe where humans colonized space and are exporting their imperialist ideals. Cage of Souls is set at humanities twilight, after it failed to leave for the stars.
In Clay, the focus is on political dissent, dogma and science. In Souls, the dissidents are a mixed bag of the disenfranchised that have run afoul of the elite, each with their own agendas. More like in, City of Last Chances.
I really enjoyed the richness of the world, with such a deep past and present, yet so much of it unknown, With a curious scholar as the protagonist and unreliable narrator.