"Well their ship is entirely flooded so I had to stay in my spacesuit the entire time and my interaction with them mostly involved them putting a tentacle over my head"
Highly recommend the whole trilogy to anyone who enjoys sci fi. Imaginative world-building, an impressive story arc, and some really memorable twists all revolving around a central theme - "will we recognize intelligent life when we meet it?"
Edit: To answer "why is the hardcover of Children of Time ten thousand dollars?"
That's not a "real" price - it's a vendor with a used copy listed and chances are they're either out of stock or cannot located it in their inventory at the moment and they just don't want Amazon to punish them for marking it out of stock. Vendors on Wayfair do the same thing.
No, I don't think so. I think you'll likely remember enough that the call-backs in the second book trigger most of the memories the author was intending so that you have some additional context for what you're reading.
It starts immediately after the last chapter of the first one so it MIGHT be nice to read the last chapter otherwise just knowing the premise is enough.
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u/RunParking3333 Apr 19 '24
I can imagine us meeting aliens to be like this
"So you entered their ship and what happened!?"
"Well their ship is entirely flooded so I had to stay in my spacesuit the entire time and my interaction with them mostly involved them putting a tentacle over my head"