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In the 2022 sequel to ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime'' and ''Literature/ChildrenOfRuin'', Creator/AdrianTchaikovsky brings his trademark BizarreAlienPsychology and FirstContact story to a down-to-earth pastoral setting. The characters are more straightforward, but the timeline is a ''Series/{{Westworld}}''-esque mystery.
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In the 2022 sequel to ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime'' ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime2015'' and ''Literature/ChildrenOfRuin'', Creator/AdrianTchaikovsky brings his trademark BizarreAlienPsychology and FirstContact story to a down-to-earth pastoral setting. The characters are more straightforward, but the timeline is a ''Series/{{Westworld}}''-esque mystery.
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** Imir itself comes from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ymir Ymir]], the father of all *jötunn* (the rivals to the gods often translated as "trolls" or "giants")
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** Imir itself comes from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ymir Ymir]], the father of all *jötunn* ''jötunn'' (the rivals to the gods often translated as "trolls" or "giants")
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* ThemeNaming: Imir and some of the colonists inhabiting it are named from Norse mythology.
** Imir itself comes from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ymir Ymir]], the father of all *jötunn* (the rivals to the gods often translated as "trolls" or "giants")
** Liff is part of the Ragnarok myth -- she and her lover Lífþrasir are prophesied to be the sole survivors of the fall of the gods, who will then repopulate the world. [[spoiler:Which turns out to be a MeaningfulName when Liff ends up as the final survivor in the colony simulation, and then the first of its populace to be granted a new life in the "real world."]]
** Hoerest Holt is a nod to Hoddmímis Holt, the forest where Liff and Lífþrasir will hide from the destruction of Ragnarok.
** Helena Garm is named for the wolf [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garmr Garm or Garmr]], which guards the gate of Hel and plays a role in Ragnarok.
** Imir itself comes from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ymir Ymir]], the father of all *jötunn* (the rivals to the gods often translated as "trolls" or "giants")
** Liff is part of the Ragnarok myth -- she and her lover Lífþrasir are prophesied to be the sole survivors of the fall of the gods, who will then repopulate the world. [[spoiler:Which turns out to be a MeaningfulName when Liff ends up as the final survivor in the colony simulation, and then the first of its populace to be granted a new life in the "real world."]]
** Hoerest Holt is a nod to Hoddmímis Holt, the forest where Liff and Lífþrasir will hide from the destruction of Ragnarok.
** Helena Garm is named for the wolf [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garmr Garm or Garmr]], which guards the gate of Hel and plays a role in Ragnarok.
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* ExistentialHorror: As their experiences make less and less causal sense, [[spoiler:Liv and Miranda]] question their reality and identity.
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* ExistentialHorror: As their experiences make less and less causal sense, [[spoiler:Liv [[spoiler:Liff and Miranda]] question their reality and identity.
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In the 2022 sequel to ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime'' and ''Literature/ChildrenOfRuin'', Creator/AdrianTchaikovsky brings his trademark strange minds and FirstContact story to a down-to-earth pastoral setting. The characters are more straightforward, but the timeline is a ''Series/{{Westworld}}''-esque mystery.
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In the 2022 sequel to ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime'' and ''Literature/ChildrenOfRuin'', Creator/AdrianTchaikovsky brings his trademark strange minds BizarreAlienPsychology and FirstContact story to a down-to-earth pastoral setting. The characters are more straightforward, but the timeline is a ''Series/{{Westworld}}''-esque mystery.
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* BioPunk: The Portiid's [[LivingShip Living Ships]], OrganicTechnology, and {{Transhumanism}} make a reappearance. And with limited farm species available, the Imir colonists bred pigs to fill every role - they have milk pigs, draft pigs, and guard pigs.
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* BioPunk: The Portiid's [[LivingShip Living Ships]], {{Living Ship}}s, OrganicTechnology, and {{Transhumanism}} {{transhuman}}ism make a reappearance. And with With limited farm species available, the Imir colonists bred pigs to fill every role - -- they have milk pigs, draft pigs, and guard pigs.
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In the 2022 sequel to ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime'' and ''Literature/ChildrenOfRuin'', Creator/AdrianTchaikovsky brings his trademark strange mind minds and FirstContact story to a down-to-earth pastoral setting. The characters are more straightforward, but the timeline is a ''Series/{{Westworld}}''-esque mystery.
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In the 2022 sequel to ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime'' and ''Literature/ChildrenOfRuin'', Adrian Tchaikovsky brings his trademark strange minds and FirstContact story to a down-to-earth pastoral setting. The characters are more straightforward, but the timeline is a Westworld-esque mystery.
Another [[TheArk ark ship]] fleeing Earth, the Enkidu, made it to a different terraformed planet. Unlike Kern's World, the planet Imir has no competing civilization - but not much of a biosphere either. For a time, the colony scrapes out a tough, low-tech, pastoral existence. But the planet is dieing. As crops fail and fungus rots the woods, guilt and paranoia rot the colony from within. Liff Holt, precocious child and granddaughter of the Enkidu's captain, chases a ghost and a witch in the woods. And something about Liff's reality doesn't make sense...
Another [[TheArk ark ship]] fleeing Earth, the Enkidu, made it to a different terraformed planet. Unlike Kern's World, the planet Imir has no competing civilization - but not much of a biosphere either. For a time, the colony scrapes out a tough, low-tech, pastoral existence. But the planet is dieing. As crops fail and fungus rots the woods, guilt and paranoia rot the colony from within. Liff Holt, precocious child and granddaughter of the Enkidu's captain, chases a ghost and a witch in the woods. And something about Liff's reality doesn't make sense...
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In the 2022 sequel to ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime'' and ''Literature/ChildrenOfRuin'', Adrian Tchaikovsky Creator/AdrianTchaikovsky brings his trademark strange minds mind and FirstContact story to a down-to-earth pastoral setting. The characters are more straightforward, but the timeline is a Westworld-esque ''Series/{{Westworld}}''-esque mystery.
Another [[TheArk ark ship]] fleeing Earth, the Enkidu, made it to a different terraformed planet. Unlike Kern's World, the planet Imir has no competing civilization- -- but not much of a biosphere either. For a time, the colony scrapes out a tough, low-tech, pastoral existence. But the planet is dieing.dying. As crops fail and fungus rots the woods, guilt and paranoia rot the colony from within. Liff Holt, precocious child and granddaughter of the Enkidu's captain, chases a ghost and a witch in the woods. And something about Liff's reality doesn't make sense...
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* {{Biopunk}}: The Portiid's [[LivingShip Living Ships]], OrganicTechnology, and {{Transhumanism}} make a reappearance. And with limited farm species available, the Imir colonists bred pigs to fill every role - they have milk pigs, draft pigs, and guard pigs.
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* {{Biopunk}}: BioPunk: The Portiid's [[LivingShip Living Ships]], OrganicTechnology, and {{Transhumanism}} make a reappearance. And with limited farm species available, the Imir colonists bred pigs to fill every role - they have milk pigs, draft pigs, and guard pigs.
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* DeathWorld: Of the boring, realistic variety. Imir has breathable air, but crops and ecosystems struggle to survive. The summers and winters are harsh and spring brings fierce storms. Rourc is likewise barren with breathable air, but has toxic chemistry instead.
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* DeathWorld: Of the boring, realistic variety. Imir has breathable air, but crops and ecosystems struggle to survive. The summers and winters are harsh harsh, and spring brings fierce storms. Rourc is likewise barren with breathable air, but has toxic chemistry instead.
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* WitchHunt: From the beginning, the town of Landfall has been paranoid about "Seccers" among them. Tensions build as the crops fail and refugees flood in...
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* WitchHunt: From the beginning, the town of Landfall has been paranoid about "Seccers" among them. Tensions build as the crops fail and refugees flood in...in...
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Another [[TheArk ark ship]] fleeing Earth, the Enkidu, made it to a different terraformed planet. Unlike Kern's World, the planet Emir has no competing civilization - but not much of a biosphere either. For a time, the colony scrapes out a tough, low-tech, pastoral existence. Lif Holt, precocious child and granddaughter of the Enkidu's captain, chases ghosts and fairy tales in the woods. But the planet is dieing. As crops fail and fungus rots the woods, guilt and paranoia rot the colony from within. And something about Lif's life doesn't make sense...
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Another [[TheArk ark ship]] fleeing Earth, the Enkidu, made it to a different terraformed planet. Unlike Kern's World, the planet Emir Imir has no competing civilization - but not much of a biosphere either. For a time, the colony scrapes out a tough, low-tech, pastoral existence. Lif Holt, precocious child and granddaughter of the Enkidu's captain, chases ghosts and fairy tales in the woods. But the planet is dieing. As crops fail and fungus rots the woods, guilt and paranoia rot the colony from within. Liff Holt, precocious child and granddaughter of the Enkidu's captain, chases a ghost and a witch in the woods. And something about Lif's life Liff's reality doesn't make sense...
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* AnachronicOrder: The story jumps between two different starship arrivals at Emir and the hardscrabble life in the colony.
* {{Biopunk}}: The Portiid's [[LivingShip Living Ships]], OrganicTechnology, and {{Transhumanism}} make a reappearance. And with limited farm species available, the Emir colonists bred pigs to fill every role - they have milk pigs, draft pigs, and guard pigs.
* {{Biopunk}}: The Portiid's [[LivingShip Living Ships]], OrganicTechnology, and {{Transhumanism}} make a reappearance. And with limited farm species available, the Emir colonists bred pigs to fill every role - they have milk pigs, draft pigs, and guard pigs.
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* AlienFairFolk: Liff can only conceptualize the alien people who walk amongst the townsfolk by using tropes from her fairy tales.
* AnachronicOrder: The story jumps between two different starship arrivals atEmir Imir and the hardscrabble life in the colony.
* {{Biopunk}}: The Portiid's [[LivingShip Living Ships]], OrganicTechnology, and {{Transhumanism}} make a reappearance. And with limited farm species available, theEmir Imir colonists bred pigs to fill every role - they have milk pigs, draft pigs, and guard pigs.
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* DeathWorld: Of the boring, realistic variety. Emir has breathable air, but crops and ecosystems struggle to survive. The summers and winters are harsh and spring brings fierce storms. Rourc is likewise barren with breathable air, but has toxic chemistry instead.
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* DeathWorld: Of the boring, realistic variety. Emir Imir has breathable air, but crops and ecosystems struggle to survive. The summers and winters are harsh and spring brings fierce storms. Rourc is likewise barren with breathable air, but has toxic chemistry instead.
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* OntologicalMystery: It starts at InMediasRes and builds. How the colony descended to the state Lif lives through is the first act mystery. And then the viewpoints and timelines start to contradict each other...
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* TownWithADarkSecret: Lif and Miranda alike wonder: what do the townsfolk all know but aren't telling them?
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* TownWithADarkSecret: Lif Liff and Miranda alike wonder: what do the townsfolk all know but aren't telling them?
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* RashomonStyle: With a twist: the first-person perspectives make the experiences seem reliable, so why do events contradict each other...?
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Liff]]'s claim to fame.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Liff]]'s claim to fame.
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* AnachronicOrder: The story jumps between two different starship arrivals at Emir and the hardscrabble life of the colony a few centuries hence.
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* ExistentialHorror: As their experiences make less and less causal sense, [[spoiler:Liv and Miranda]] question their reality and identity.
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Loved the audiobook, felt the urge to document. Just like the two crows!
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In the 2022 sequel to ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime'' and ''Literature/ChildrenOfRuin'', Adrian Tchaikovsky brings his trademark strange minds and FirstContact story to a down-to-earth pastoral setting. The characters are more straightforward, but the timeline is a Westworld-esque mystery.
Another [[TheArk ark ship]] fleeing Earth, the Enkidu, made it to a different terraformed planet. Unlike Kern's World, the planet Emir has no competing civilization - but not much of a biosphere either. For a time, the colony scrapes out a tough, low-tech, pastoral existence. Lif Holt, precocious child and granddaughter of the Enkidu's captain, chases ghosts and fairy tales in the woods. But the planet is dieing. As crops fail and fungus rots the woods, guilt and paranoia rot the colony from within. And something about Lif's life doesn't make sense...
Unbeknownst to the colony, the exploration starship Skipper, containing a pan-species crew of (mostly) descendants of Earth, has arrived, and are tiptoeing about how to contact and help the xenophobic Emirans.
And both factions discovered a mysterious alien signal on the planet, which even the legendary Captain Holt did not return from investigating...
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!!''Children of Memory'' contains examples of:
* AnachronicOrder: The story jumps between two different starship arrivals at Emir and the hardscrabble life of the colony a few centuries hence.
* {{Biopunk}}: The Portiid's [[LivingShip Living Ships]], OrganicTechnology, and {{Transhumanism}} make a reappearance. And with limited farm species available, the Emir colonists bred pigs to fill every role - they have milk pigs, draft pigs, and guard pigs.
* BizarreSeasons: Emir doesn't have Spring; it has Storm and After-Storm.
* DeathWorld: Of the boring, realistic variety. Emir has breathable air, but crops and ecosystems struggle to survive. The summers and winters are harsh and spring brings fierce storms. Rourc is likewise barren with breathable air, but has toxic chemistry instead.
* FirstContact: This time, humans are the contacted.
* GlamourFailure: Horrifying, despite it happening to sympathetic characters.
* HumanPopsicle: Played for tragedy on the Enkidu.
* InterspeciesFriendship: The crew of the Skipper and their civilization as a whole.
* LostColony: Emir fares far less well than Kern's world. The printers the colonists brought from Earth couldn't print new printers, and they couldn't find the rare elements for advanced technology, so eventually, the high-tech machines failed, leaving them at a diesel and analog tech level.
* NeglectfulPrecursors: Again, the terraforming project. The Enkidu colonists expect to find a verdant planet; instead, they discover breathable air but little other life.
* OntologicalMystery: It starts at InMediasRes and builds. How the colony descended to the state Lif lives through is the first act mystery. And then the viewpoints and timelines start to contradict each other...
* PastoralScienceFiction: Most of the plot happens in the small town of Landfall and the surrounding farms and woods.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Despite her technological origin and her denials, "witch" fits Kern quite well.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Lif and Miranda alike wonder: what do the townsfolk all know but aren't telling them?
* WitchHunt: From the beginning, the town of Landfall has been paranoid about "Seccers" among them. Tensions build as the crops fail and refugees flood in...
Another [[TheArk ark ship]] fleeing Earth, the Enkidu, made it to a different terraformed planet. Unlike Kern's World, the planet Emir has no competing civilization - but not much of a biosphere either. For a time, the colony scrapes out a tough, low-tech, pastoral existence. Lif Holt, precocious child and granddaughter of the Enkidu's captain, chases ghosts and fairy tales in the woods. But the planet is dieing. As crops fail and fungus rots the woods, guilt and paranoia rot the colony from within. And something about Lif's life doesn't make sense...
Unbeknownst to the colony, the exploration starship Skipper, containing a pan-species crew of (mostly) descendants of Earth, has arrived, and are tiptoeing about how to contact and help the xenophobic Emirans.
And both factions discovered a mysterious alien signal on the planet, which even the legendary Captain Holt did not return from investigating...
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!!''Children of Memory'' contains examples of:
* AnachronicOrder: The story jumps between two different starship arrivals at Emir and the hardscrabble life of the colony a few centuries hence.
* {{Biopunk}}: The Portiid's [[LivingShip Living Ships]], OrganicTechnology, and {{Transhumanism}} make a reappearance. And with limited farm species available, the Emir colonists bred pigs to fill every role - they have milk pigs, draft pigs, and guard pigs.
* BizarreSeasons: Emir doesn't have Spring; it has Storm and After-Storm.
* DeathWorld: Of the boring, realistic variety. Emir has breathable air, but crops and ecosystems struggle to survive. The summers and winters are harsh and spring brings fierce storms. Rourc is likewise barren with breathable air, but has toxic chemistry instead.
* FirstContact: This time, humans are the contacted.
* GlamourFailure: Horrifying, despite it happening to sympathetic characters.
* HumanPopsicle: Played for tragedy on the Enkidu.
* InterspeciesFriendship: The crew of the Skipper and their civilization as a whole.
* LostColony: Emir fares far less well than Kern's world. The printers the colonists brought from Earth couldn't print new printers, and they couldn't find the rare elements for advanced technology, so eventually, the high-tech machines failed, leaving them at a diesel and analog tech level.
* NeglectfulPrecursors: Again, the terraforming project. The Enkidu colonists expect to find a verdant planet; instead, they discover breathable air but little other life.
* OntologicalMystery: It starts at InMediasRes and builds. How the colony descended to the state Lif lives through is the first act mystery. And then the viewpoints and timelines start to contradict each other...
* PastoralScienceFiction: Most of the plot happens in the small town of Landfall and the surrounding farms and woods.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Despite her technological origin and her denials, "witch" fits Kern quite well.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Lif and Miranda alike wonder: what do the townsfolk all know but aren't telling them?
* WitchHunt: From the beginning, the town of Landfall has been paranoid about "Seccers" among them. Tensions build as the crops fail and refugees flood in...
