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Nov. 9th, 2021 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreAfter a several-month hiatus, tonight I started listening to the audiobook of Children of Ruin again, picking up where I left off. Which was right at the point where the alien microorganisms infect and, essentially, possess all the humans* on Nod.
That sequence, combined with some of the climax of Children of Time and everything involving the Rat in the Echoes of the Fall trilogy, makes me really want to see Mr Tchaikovsky write a straight-up horror novel. I'd be really curious to see what he would do in that genre - I bet it would be pretty rad, because that spoiler-cut bit above was one of the most effective horror sequences I've read in quite some time.
(Hell, the dude has written about sixty million books - maybe he has written a horror novel and I haven't stumbled across it yet.)
*The problem with listening to this book rather than reading it is that I have no idea how to spell many of the human characters' names, which makes the characters slightly difficult to talk about.
That sequence, combined with some of the climax of Children of Time and everything involving the Rat in the Echoes of the Fall trilogy, makes me really want to see Mr Tchaikovsky write a straight-up horror novel. I'd be really curious to see what he would do in that genre - I bet it would be pretty rad, because that spoiler-cut bit above was one of the most effective horror sequences I've read in quite some time.
(Hell, the dude has written about sixty million books - maybe he has written a horror novel and I haven't stumbled across it yet.)
*The problem with listening to this book rather than reading it is that I have no idea how to spell many of the human characters' names, which makes the characters slightly difficult to talk about.
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Date: 2021-11-10 05:19 pm (UTC)