March is lining up to be packed with treats for science fiction fans. For starters, we get to return to the universe of Adrian Tchaikovsky鈥檚 Children of Time series, this time in the company of a huge mantis shrimp. We鈥檙e also being offered a take on Moby-Dick, set in space, and what sounds like a must-read: a forgotten speculative novel from 1936, which imagines the last woman left alive in Britain after a pandemic. If instead you鈥檙e after a cosy sci-fi mystery, a slice of horror or a mission to Europa, then you鈥檙e in luck, because all of those are on offer too.
TIL there is a 4th Children of Time Book. Hopefully it鈥檚 better than Children of Memory, because I don鈥檛 recall feeling as satisfied with the series after that and was sort of bummed if it was ending that way. I鈥檓 cautiously optimistic he turns it around.
Agree! I had no idea another was forthcoming, and also felt the third was the weakest in the series.
Struggling to finish the second. Doubt I will even start the third.
I read one of his newer books last year (was just looking for something light and fun), Flybot, and it was TERRIBLE. I didn鈥檛 finish it.
The director of Interview with the Vampire and The Company of Wolves turns to science fiction
Well, that鈥檚 not much to recommend it.