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Eyes of the Void
- The Final Architecture, Book 2
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epic Children of Time, winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award. Eyes of the Void is the second high-octane instalment in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture space opera trilogy.
What waits in the shadows as we fight our greatest foe?
After one great battle, the Architects disappeared. Yet humanity’s fragile peace is brief. For, forty years later, the galaxy’s greatest alien enemy has returned. This time, the artefacts that preserved entire worlds from destruction are ineffective. And no planet is safe.
The Human Colony worlds are in turmoil as they face extinction. Some believe alliances with other species can save them. Others insist humanity must fight alone. But no one has the firepower or technology to ensure victory, as the Architects loom ever closer.
Idris spent decades running from the last war’s horrors. Yet as an Intermediary, altered to navigate deep space, he’s one of humanity’s only weapons. He’s therefore forced back into action. With a handful of allies, Idris must find something–anything–to stop the Architects’ pitiless advance. But to do so, he must return to the nightmare of unspace, where his mind was broken and remade. What he discovers there will change everything.
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Critic reviews
"One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction." (Christopher Paolini)
"[Adrian] writes incredibly enjoyable sci-fi, full of life and ideas." (Patrick Ness, author of The Knife of Never Letting Go)
"Brilliant science fiction." (James McAvoy on Children of Time)
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- Mr C Blencowe
- 08-07-23
Brilliant follow up
Really enjoyed the second instalment to this story. Great story brought to life amazingly well by the narrator.
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- Theuth
- 07-08-22
Sweeping imagination for Setting, but ...
Sweeping imagination for the universe backdrop. Mysterious and vividly imagined. There is nobody like the author for these sort of imaginative flights in the contemporary scene really. But characterization a little weak and the main character tedious and a little pathetic (not in a good way). Politics are very woke and sometimes get in the way of the scene building. I think some of this will date very quickly. Narration is very game with lots of voices and characters and I am sure this took lots of work but the voicing for Idris is dull (fitting the character) but this makes it very hard to listen to these segments. I can't quite work out if the narration is making this worse or if it is just problems of characterization. I struggle on for the ideas but these central problems get in the way of really enjoying all of this.
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- Joseph Elliott-Coleman
- 01-01-23
The "Empire Strikes Back" of Tchaikovsky's series
Again, Adrian brings us back to the hell of the Architects ever looming destruction and shows to that distrust, extremism, and a refusal to compromise, are as dangerous at the moon sized biomechanical alien death machines.
Again, Sophie Aldred effortlessly brings the books characters to life making each distinct from another. She's fast becoming my favourite Adrian's audiobooks narrators.
All in all another banger from the heir apperant to the throne left vacent by Arthur C. Clarke as the UK's greatest living science fiction writer. Roll on the fast approaching end of the trilogy.
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- Max Himmelreich
- 09-05-22
Adrian writes like you're watching a blockbuster
Sophie Aldred is a brilliant narrator. I cannot stop listening and I'm so excited to hear what will happen in the next part of the series!
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- Eoghan Collery
- 08-05-22
Great second book cannot wait for the finale
Great book cannot wait for the next one in the series. Adrian is becoming one of my favourite sci fi authors and this book only confirms it.
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- R. Maines
- 14-07-22
More juicy Space Opera
If you enjoyed the first book then you are probably going to enjoy this one. The crew of the Vulture God go on more adventures, roll on book 3.
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- Ali
- 03-02-23
Brilliant and clever
Really enjoyed the second book and can’t wait for the 3rd one. Already preordered and hoping for a 4th and a 5th.
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- Dan C
- 22-07-22
Great sequel!
I've yet to read an Adrian Tchaikovsky book I didn't love. The same great characters frim Shards of Earth continue their story. Thoroughly enjoyed. The narration is fantastic and really breathes life into the book.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-01-23
Another great one from Adrian
I love sci-fi universes that work at a massive scale and have rich in-depth lore, this series isn't as hard sci-fi as as the children of time series it feels more like Adrian doing his take on a more mass effect or Star wars type narrative.
with lots of alien factions and and semi Newtonian physics and and a big ever present Eldridge force that the more relatable aliens and humanity have to band together and fight against.
what makes mess more engaging is is Adrian's scientific knowledge informing the designs in his is books creating some of the most unique aliens I've ever imagined.
the characters are great and well written the plot is engaging the whole way through and the narrator does a great job whether it be human characters of any gender or the screeching voice of an aliens translator
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- Anonymous User
- 21-06-23
Expanding and setting up
definitely feels like a "2nd book" in a series
while i enjoyed it greatly and loved that much more of this universe is shown to us, i would say it feels incomplete on its own, I'll be heading straight into the 3rd book from here, but if you're short on time, it's gonna be a lot to invest after book 1, if you want to see its story to an end
an aside, i pray for the poor Narrator Sophie's throat after voicing Ahab! :b great work all around
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