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The Doors of Eden
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
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The Doors of Eden
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Summary
They thought we were safe. They were wrong.
Adrian Tchaikovsky brought us far-future adventure with Children of Time. Now The Doors of Eden takes us from Bodmin Moor to London and alternate versions of earth. This is an extraordinary feat of the imagination and a compelling listen.
Lee and Mal went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor four years ago, and only Lee came back. She thought she’d lost Mal forever, now miraculously returned. But what happened that day on the moors? And where has Mal been all this time? Mal's reappearance hasn’t gone unnoticed by MI5 either, and their officers have questions.
Julian Sabreur is investigating an attack on top physicist Kay Amal Khan. This leads Julian to clash with agents of an unknown power – and they may or may not be human. His only clue is grainy footage, showing a woman who supposedly died on Bodmin Moor.
Dr Khan’s research was theoretical. Then she found cracks between our world and parallel Earths. Now these cracks are widening, revealing extraordinary creatures. And as the doors come crashing open, anything could come through . . .
'Inventive, funny and engrossing, this book lingers long after you close it' - Tade Thompson, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Rosewater
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- Joseph Elliott-Coleman
- 12-01-21
A brilliant, angry and pointed novel
A scream of frustration at human pettiness and selfish and a fierce reminder that we're at our best we we look at what we have in common. Unity saves. Devision destroys.
Tchaikovsky does it again and Sophie Aldred effortlessly bring his novel to life.
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- M Field
- 20-09-20
Great Scifi
Occasionally a book comes along that you can't put down. This is one of those. Interest all the way through.
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- Michael McCormick
- 18-01-21
Great
I have read / listened to several or Adrian Tchaikovsky’s books now and this was probably the best. The interludes of alternative timelines and the different paths of evolution were themselves worthy the listen, but there was also a decent story stringing the whole thing together. The performance was also great; the accents were decent and didn’t make me cringe. Buy it.
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- Glenn Davidson
- 23-10-20
Excellent allegorical adventure
Fast-moving speculative adventure with some thinly-veiled parallels to our world, ironically enough. Brilliantly narrated by Sophie Aldred - looking forward to finding more of her work on here.
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- dean strachan
- 21-05-24
Mind boggingly good!
Great story that really makes you think just how small we are in the universe, or universes! Great performance by the narrator and really good storyline, will purchase the next instalment with my next credit!
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- Ratwork
- 16-10-24
Brilliant, entertaining, enormous
fantastic standalone Tsaykovski which excels in down to earth science fiction, a must read for the fan, but also explicitely recommandable as a first read
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- Malc
- 09-01-21
Beautiful parable - highly recommended
I loved this book. I don’t want to give away any spoilers, but this is not the monsters on the moor adventure you might expect from the description on Audible. It is a beautiful story, complex yet engagingly told, and excellently narrated. At the time of listening I felt like I could do with something uplifting at a difficult time for the world. I expected the book to be good. What I didn’t expect was it to be such an uplifting, joyful parable showing what we might achieve if we could learn to get along with those who seem different to ourselves.
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- Porl
- 23-05-21
A triumph of innovative sci-fi and perspective
Having been thoroughly impressed with Children of time and loving how Tchaikovsky writes from wildly different points of view in that book this is very similar he can somehow put himself in others shoes and write from their perspective.
He also writes from a women's perspective in many cases and always seems comfortable in that role.
The plot had some hole's in it but trotted away at a good pace and never felt drawn out or too unrealistic but he develops character's and role's very well.
All in all a good read 😃
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- Smithicus
- 10-10-20
Awkward Accents and unsatisfying conclusion
The narrators American accent every few chapters was cringe-worthy, and hard to listen to. The ending was an underwhelming damp squib. Disappointing, especially considering some of the author's other works.
If you like Tchaikovsky, you will probably enjoy this; it's standard stuff for him; history, evolution, language, spiders, sentences ending in prepositions, technology, humanity's tendency to destroy itself. I just don't feel like this was great, and parts of it were tedious. The interesting bits were underdescribed while ages was spent on snooze-worthy stuff.
On the plus side, no awkward scenes, the author keeps it classy.
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- P. G. Tite
- 28-10-20
Ace Narrative
This is more science fantasy, than hard science fiction, like the Children of series. In this novel AT looks at different minds and how if evolution had stuck with certain designs, how life on Earth could be different, using the idea of parallel multi verse as the way of viewing these different takes on evolution from Space fairing Trilobites to an Ice mind made by fish. It definitely plays a homage to TV shows such as Sliders and Doctor Who, with great world building and enjoying the vocal work of a former Doctor's assistant, is just Ace! For me there were a few moments in the story that didn't quite work, the bad guy was a bit too Nigel Farage for me, not very smart but irritating as hell! Then there was the lack of character awareness, the UK government spooks seemed to be very slow and dim, not very smart at all. I know this is a standalone novel, but it does seem itself up for a sequel, maybe in a few years, after the events at the end of the book and the world changing to deal with these events.
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