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  • Eyes of the Void

  • The Final Architecture, Book 2
  • By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
  • Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
  • Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (455 ratings)

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Eyes of the Void

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
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Summary

From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epic Children of Time, winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award. Eyes of the Void is the second high-octane instalment in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture space opera trilogy.

What waits in the shadows as we fight our greatest foe?

After one great battle, the Architects disappeared. Yet humanity’s fragile peace is brief. For, forty years later, the galaxy’s greatest alien enemy has returned. This time, the artefacts that preserved entire worlds from destruction are ineffective. And no planet is safe.

The Human Colony worlds are in turmoil as they face extinction. Some believe alliances with other species can save them. Others insist humanity must fight alone. But no one has the firepower or technology to ensure victory, as the Architects loom ever closer.

Idris spent decades running from the last war’s horrors. Yet as an Intermediary, altered to navigate deep space, he’s one of humanity’s only weapons. He’s therefore forced back into action. With a handful of allies, Idris must find something–anything–to stop the Architects’ pitiless advance. But to do so, he must return to the nightmare of unspace, where his mind was broken and remade. What he discovers there will change everything.

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Critic reviews

"One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction." (Christopher Paolini)

"[Adrian] writes incredibly enjoyable sci-fi, full of life and ideas." (Patrick Ness, author of The Knife of Never Letting Go)

"Brilliant science fiction." (James McAvoy on Children of Time)

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Brilliant follow up

Really enjoyed the second instalment to this story. Great story brought to life amazingly well by the narrator.

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Sweeping imagination for Setting, but ...

Sweeping imagination for the universe backdrop. Mysterious and vividly imagined. There is nobody like the author for these sort of imaginative flights in the contemporary scene really. But characterization a little weak and the main character tedious and a little pathetic (not in a good way). Politics are very woke and sometimes get in the way of the scene building. I think some of this will date very quickly. Narration is very game with lots of voices and characters and I am sure this took lots of work but the voicing for Idris is dull (fitting the character) but this makes it very hard to listen to these segments. I can't quite work out if the narration is making this worse or if it is just problems of characterization. I struggle on for the ideas but these central problems get in the way of really enjoying all of this.

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The "Empire Strikes Back" of Tchaikovsky's series

Again, Adrian brings us back to the hell of the Architects ever looming destruction and shows to that distrust, extremism, and a refusal to compromise, are as dangerous at the moon sized biomechanical alien death machines.
Again, Sophie Aldred effortlessly brings the books characters to life making each distinct from another. She's fast becoming my favourite Adrian's audiobooks narrators.
All in all another banger from the heir apperant to the throne left vacent by Arthur C. Clarke as the UK's greatest living science fiction writer. Roll on the fast approaching end of the trilogy.

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Adrian writes like you're watching a blockbuster

Sophie Aldred is a brilliant narrator. I cannot stop listening and I'm so excited to hear what will happen in the next part of the series!

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Great sequel!

I've yet to read an Adrian Tchaikovsky book I didn't love. The same great characters frim Shards of Earth continue their story. Thoroughly enjoyed. The narration is fantastic and really breathes life into the book.

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Another great one from Adrian

I love sci-fi universes that work at a massive scale and have rich in-depth lore, this series isn't as hard sci-fi as as the children of time series it feels more like Adrian doing his take on a more mass effect or Star wars type narrative.

with lots of alien factions and and semi Newtonian physics and and a big ever present Eldridge force that the more relatable aliens and humanity have to band together and fight against.

what makes mess more engaging is is Adrian's scientific knowledge informing the designs in his is books creating some of the most unique aliens I've ever imagined.

the characters are great and well written the plot is engaging the whole way through and the narrator does a great job whether it be human characters of any gender or the screeching voice of an aliens translator

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Expanding and setting up

definitely feels like a "2nd book" in a series
while i enjoyed it greatly and loved that much more of this universe is shown to us, i would say it feels incomplete on its own, I'll be heading straight into the 3rd book from here, but if you're short on time, it's gonna be a lot to invest after book 1, if you want to see its story to an end

an aside, i pray for the poor Narrator Sophie's throat after voicing Ahab! :b great work all around

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I LOVE Adrian Chaikovsky

I do, I love all of his work. This series reminds me a lot of Iain M Banks and I particularly enjoy all of the concepts related to unspace. The only thing that’s less than ideal about this audiobook is my imagination can’t always keep up with the descriptions of different life forms and places and unlike in a paper book it’s much harder to go back and find the description again. So I think I’ll ‘eye read’ the next one so I don’t miss out.

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Skillfully read!

I couldn’t wait to finish this book just to rebut one of the reviews here complaining about the narration. The narration is outstanding and one of the best out there considering the wide array of characters. Fantastic.

The story itself continues nicely on from the first book and the author did a good job dropping in hints about what happened previously in the early chapters so you get a bit of a recap.

Love the world and lore being built up. And cannot wait to find out what the hell unspace is for!

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A solid sequel

Having read books 1 and 2 back to back this latter has less novelty but lacks none of the energy and drive of the first. A necessary read if you’ve read book 1

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