5/13/2023 0 Comments Tchaikovsky elder race![]() ![]() He isn’t supposed to meddle with these people, but Earth stopped sending messages and he got lonely. Two hundred years ago he was asked by a queen to help him slay a “demon” which was in fact an old mining machine that got operable again. Nyr is a centuries-old anthropologist, residing in frozen sleep in his high-tech outpost, only to awaken once every few centuries to observe the progress of these primitive kingdoms, these regressed peoples from earlier waves of space exploration. Lynesse takes it upon herself to travel to the old wizard tower to ask the wizard Nyr for his help once more. That was centuries ago, but now a new demon stalks the land, causing the forest peoples to panic and flee. As an independent spirit she has always been fascinated by the stories of her ancestors and how they called on the ancient wizard Nyrgoth the Elder to help the kingdom fight against demons and dark magic. Lynesse is the Fourth Daughter of the Queen. Elder Race (2021) is a delightful little novel (or novella) that juxtaposes the perspectives of fantasy and science fiction in a very immediate way and to humorous and emotional effect. Say it with me now: “ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Yes, and boy does Adrian Tchaikovsky play with it here. Let me bring out that old, chewed-out saying by Artie Clarke. ![]()
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