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Tchaikovsky elder race7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Everything about this book suggests deliberate care in uniting epic fantasy's immersive world-building with the sharp, dislocating bursts of high-concept science fiction. ![]() Le Guin Fiction Prize!Īn Indie Next Reading Group Selection! "There's an Ursula Le Guin-like grace to storytelling, to the shifting of cadences. But Elder Nyr isn't a sorcerer, and he is forbidden to help, and his knowledge of science tells him the threat cannot possibly be a demon. Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it). But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. About the Book " junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe"-Provided by publisher. ![]()
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