The Doors of Eden is an LGBTQ positive novel and this character is the one exception. Rob Wolf is the host of New Books in Science Fiction and the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape.Please note that the villain of the piece is a horrible bigot who throws around homophobic and transphobic slurs as well as deadnaming a transgender character at one point and forcing them to wear the clothes of their former gender. Clarke, British Fantasy and British Science Fiction Awards. I needed to find a plot that humans could get involved in that would showcase all of those different earths.”Īdrian Tchiakovsky is the author of over 20 novels and winner of the Arthur C.
… How other sentient races might have developed from a completely different starting point was very much the point of the book, to be honest. “If the conditions had been slightly different, we would have been very different. “One of the big things you run into in studies of evolution is this assumption that we are what it was all aimed towards when, of course, we're only one rung of the ladder that's going to run a long way beyond us,” Tchiakovsky says. While mankind’s dominance of Earth has often been mythologized as inevitable, The Doors of Eden presents a countervailing narrative, one that elevates chance as the most important factor in our species’ success. No single species has the smarts or technology to fix the problem by itself, so they must create an all-star team of the best and brightest among rats, trilobites, humans and more if any their worlds hopes to continue. Tchiakovsky’s characters learn about the existence of other Earths because the boundaries between them have sundered, necessitating urgent action. And in still another version of our planet, giant immortal spacefaring trilobites establish themselves at the top of the evolutionary heap for all eternity. Toddler-sized rats pave the planet with Industrial Age warrens in a different Earth. In one, giant mollusks “understand and communicate profound truths about the nature of existence.” In another, a creature twice the size of the average human with traits of fish, salamander and slug creates a permanent ice age and must upload its citizens to supercomputers to survive. The forks in the road and the paths species take vary from Earth to Earth, seeding sentience in a wide variety of organisms. In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The Doors of Eden (Orbit, 2020) the multiverse is filled with parallel Earths where evolution takes different twists and turns.
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