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Klein described Children of Ruin as a scifi book about an advanced civilization built by octopuses, noting he bought it immediately and loved how it examined alien mindsets.
I did an episode on octopuses, and I immediately got all these emails from you saying, have you read Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin? Children of Ruin, when I looked it up, turns out to be a sci...
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Klein described Children of Ruin as a scifi book about an advanced civilization built by octopuses, noting he bought it immediately and loved how it examined alien mindsets.
I did an episode on octopuses, and I immediately got all these emails from you saying, have you read Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin? Children of Ruin, when I looked it up, turns out to be a scifi book about an advanced civilization built by octopuses, which sold, completely sold immediately on that. And so I bought it, and I started reading it.
The second book in the series is Children of Ruin. One of the main things it's about is a society that built up around octopuses.
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Ezra mentioned it as Andrei Tchaikovsky's great scifi book about octopus society.
There's Andrei Tchaikovsky's great scifi book about octopus society, Children of Ruin.
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Adrian Tchaikovsky's scifi novel about hyperintelligent societies was recommended as a compelling work of speculative fiction.
There is such a book and it's called Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It's the sequel to Children of Time and both are great biologically informed science fiction about hyperintelligent societies.