Lords of Uncreation: An epic space adventure from a master storyteller (The Final Architecture Book 3)

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I've read quite a bit of Tchaikovsky including Children of Time, Children of Ruin, Children of Memory, and 5 books of The Shadows of The Apt. You’re not reading this review if you’re curious to know what it’s about, you want to know if Tchaikovsky can stick the landing. Not all is at is seems at the surface, and eventually, an unholy alliance is formed, upsetting the balance of power. The guy just keeps reinventing the wheel, breathing new life into old tropes, and in the last 5 years or so, has quickly become one of my favorite authors. What draws me most to this series are the amazing descriptions of the encounters of the Intermediary Idris Telemmier with the creatures of unspace, a level of space beneath the real where its visitors aren’t even real anymore.

What made this series so fun concerned the intriguing cast rather than the science, making this really a character driven adventure with technology and such being merely the backdrop and largely handwaves. I appreciate a bit of humor even in serious stuff, and Tchaikovsky so perfect for that (I swear, we share the exact same sense of humor and it’s perfect for me). Ollie on the run over and over from the architects, Havaer having repetitive frustrating interactions with bureaucracy, Kris and Solace spinning their wheels getting nowhere. She and her fellow Intermediary, Grave, are confronting one of the world-sized giants and trying to make contact with its mind to get it to relent in its attack of the planet they are defending, Assur.The scene shifts to the perspective of Kris, lawyer and knife-fighter, once a crew member of the Vulture God, who is traveling to Estoc. Please note that while none of the spoilers I mention are particularly notable, there will be spoilers in this review.

I’ve been a fan since I first discovered his epic fantasy Shadows of the Apt series, and his swing into science fiction has led to brilliant books like Children of Time and Cage of Souls. This would have worked if there had been *any* use of her legal and diplomatic skills, but she is just. A. Corey, noting that both works contained "space operatics, down-and-dirty noir and intrigue elements, band-of-comrades adventure, gothic spookiness, alien weirdness, special-effects-go-boom sequences, and mysteries that could well remain mysterious when all is finally wrapped up.What's worse is how utterly useless everyone else becomes in the face of the external unspace metaphysical threat, they are pretty much just standing around as the author struggles to find stuff for them to fill the pages. Most people here have read books 1 and 2, so I’m going to assume you know the premise of the series and aren’t really looking for the sell.