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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9191628" data-attributes="member: 18">There's no accounting for taste, but purely as a writer, recent Adrian Tchaikovsky is a significantly better than recent Reynolds in a number of ways, I would suggest. He's certainly far better storyteller and character writer.As for "bleeds away", I find the opposite to be true. I've read several Reynolds novels and found only general concepts to be memorable. The actual characters and scenes are deeply forgettable and rarely evoke much in the way of emotion. The one exception would be Terminal World, which wasn't as clever as the rest, but somehow was much more human.That said some of Tchaikovsky's standalone stuff has been rather "meh" (Cage of Souls was a yawn, soz Adrian), so if you got the wrong stuff there, I could see it.Re: listening, I've listened to some and read others for both authors - not seeing a huge difference in either case. Neither author seems to be writing specifically to be read out in the way, say, Ben Aaronovitch seems to be with the Rivers of London series past the first two.I personally think Children of Time is a good starting point. So long as you're not an arachnophobe to the point of not even wanting to imagine spiders! Each book is compartmentalized so you're only in for the long haul if you want to be, and it's classic-style SF.Final Architecture is really great space opera, with a lot of energy and strong characterisation, plotting, twists and so on. I struggle to think of a space opera series that holds together as well as this. It also has some of the most memorable characters in written space opera, imho. It's basically an ensemble piece though initially there is perhaps too much focus on Idris (who is kinda slappable, albeit for good reason), but the second two books fix this.Echoes of the Fall is a fairly straightforward fantasy adventure where almost all the characters are humans who can shapeshift into a specific animal based on their tribe (in one case into a dinosaur, even). I don't think it's Tchaikovsky's best work but it's a good adventure story with some fun characters. I think it connects to Shadows of the Apt, which I haven't read, but only towards the end.</blockquote>

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