The Doors of Eden

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Evolution is inevitable once you have an imperfectly self-replicating system in an environment of limited resources. I was well-impressed from the very start; the prose is lively, its tone thoroughly modern, its message one of inclusion and acceptance. Enter strong-willed but vulnerable Cara, a young black woman plucked from the hostile wastelands to work for the Institute: her doppelgangers are dead on all but eight parallel Earths, allowing her almost unlimited movement.

The Doors of Eden’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky Book Review: ‘The Doors of Eden’ by Adrian Tchaikovsky

The Doors of Eden by Adrian Tchaikovsky is not just a great piece of science fiction, its a great piece of writing with a valuable lesson for all of us. Fixed camera angle, so things could be happening just off-screen, plus bad-quality images full of ghosting and phantom movement. She felt almost clinical about it, like she was Sherlock Holmes ready to make gnostic pronouncements about the murderer.Khan’s personal security cameras he starts his own personal journey down a very narrow and twisted rabbit hole. She had forgotten the snow, the cold – had mind-space only for the play of those lean muscles, the scales where the feathers tapered above the knee, the three-toed foot with its inner digit held daintily off the ground. His societies tend to do better when stark individualism is put aside and a hand (or a tentacle, or a claw) is extended across the Us-Them divide, not holding a weapon but an offer of help, the acknowledgment of something common in us rather than what divides us. It is impossible to pick a favourite, though highlights include a species of mudskipper-like fish that upload their minds into ice-bound supercomputers and a world in which descendants of cats rule over primates through a souped-up version of the Toxoplasma gondii parasite.

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He doesn’t necessarily have a redemption arc, but his story does an amazing job exploring how the tiny choices we make build momentum into who we become, and in some ways how our circumstances–not our inherent nature– determines whether we are good or bad. That evaluating, calculating regard, eyes deep as wells – glittering with cruelty and murder, perhaps. From the unicellular organisms deciding that strength is in numbers to the ill-fated trilobites of the Cambrian explosion, to Devonian Age of Fishes, to the devastation of the Great Dying of the Permian extinction, to the ill-fated dinosaurs side-eyeing that mercilessly approaching asteroid, to mammalian dominance until finally, elbowing out of the way our less fortunate Neanderthal cousins we, humans, emerge onto the global scene as the ultimate lottery winners.The Doors of Eden begins with two best friends and secret lovers – Lee and Mal, deciding to take an expedition to Bodmin Moor. They were big as shire horses, with something of the same ponderousness, but shaggy to their ankles with drab coats of feathers. The thing about dodgy YouTube videos of fake cryptids is how many important details they don’t include in the description, and Lee and Mal weren’t about to go wandering Bodmin Moor looking for ‘the farm’. Our world is in peril, but it’s not just our world, it is every world; every earth that exists, spanning many timelines, is on the brink of destruction, and it lies upon humans, aliens and monsters to save the day. Since the dawn of the Earth, this chemical had voraciously attacked any element it came into contact with; now it became the servant of developing life.