Book description
From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epic Children of Time, winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award. Shards of Earth is the first high-octane, far-future space adventure in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture trilogy.
'One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction' - Christopher Paolini
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Shards of Earth is a rip-roaring science fiction adventure story full of the things I love.
A rag-tag space salvage crew trying to survive and maybe profit against a backdrop of war and invasion finds themselves at the very center of events with the fate of humanity in the balance. There are vast, inscrutable alien death machines wrecking whole planets for reasons nobody can figure out. It even has weird human societies and weirder extraterrestrials.
It's a great space opera with vivid
characters, amazing but plausible technology, and a grand scope.
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