{"id":20544,"date":"2023-01-23T20:27:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T01:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=20544"},"modified":"2023-01-23T21:10:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T02:10:36","slug":"children-of-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/children-of-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"Children of Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;Heorest Holt was forced to admit that nobody had thought it through properly back on Earth, because you couldn&#8217;t have, not really. Not being as ignorant as they had been of what was waiting out among the stars. And a lot of people had desperately bought into the idea of pre-prepared Edens because what else would convince you to get on a ship bound on a multi-thousand year trip into oblivion?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Children of Memory<\/strong> by Adrian Tchaikovsky, published in 2022<\/p>\n<p>The ship Enkidu barely makes it to Imir, and the humans onboard discover that terraforming isn&#8217;t complete. They can breathe, but there are no edible plans or animals. Decades later, the descendants of the people who landed are eking out a life. Miranda, who looks like a human but is not, from a more technologically advanced society, arrives to study the settlement.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/children-of-ruin\/\"><strong>Children of Ruin<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tchaikovsky revisits the theme from <strong>Elder Race<\/strong> &#8212; what happens when members of an advanced-technology society meet up with members of a society who have less. There are certainly some interesting ideas, but the story itself didn&#8217;t grab me as much as his other novels.<\/p>\n<p>I liked some of the book, but there was a fair amount that wasn&#8217;t as satisfying as I wanted it to be.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about different kinds of life, and doing the best for your friends.<\/p>\n<p>One more quotation: &#8220;Liff might be only twenty-six, still on the edge of childhood, but she can see exactly what was going on. And she knows nobody will say anything, just as her parents won&#8217;t say anything. Because, right now, if you stand up then you&#8217;re the nail and men like Molder have hammers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 5 books by Tchaikovsky. I previously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/elder-race\/\"><strong>Elder Race<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;Heorest Holt was forced to admit that nobody had thought it through properly back on Earth, because you couldn&#8217;t have, not really. Not being as ignorant as they had been of what was waiting out among the stars. And a lot of people had desperately bought into the idea of pre-prepared Edens because what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,28,5,8],"class_list":["post-20544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20549,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20544\/revisions\/20549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}