The Expert Systems Brother, Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Expert Systems Brother, Adrian Tchaikovsky
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The Expert System's Brother

Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrator: Shaun Grindell

Unabridged: 4 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/30/2019


Synopsis

Bestselling British master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky brings listeners a new, mind-expanding science fantasia in The Expert System's Brother.

After an unfortunate accident, Handry is forced to wander a world he doesn't understand, searching for meaning. He soon discovers that the life he thought he knew is far stranger than he could even possibly imagine.

Can an unlikely savior provide the answers to the questions he barely comprehends?

About Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the ten-book Shadows of the Apt series, starting with Empire in Black and Gold. His other works include the novel Children of Time, which won the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the short story collection Feast and Famine, and the novellas The Bloody Deluge and Even in the Cannon's Mouth. He has been shortlisted for the David Gemmell Legend Award and the British Fantasy Award.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Justine on June 08, 2024

A short piece that nevertheless manages the richness in worldbuilding that I have come to associate with Tchaikovsky's work. While I didn't like this one quite as much as the novella Dogs of War, it was still very good. Tchaikovsky again shows how very skilled he is at capturing the voices of his ch......more

Goodreads review by Dannii on May 30, 2021

Protagonist, Handry, is all but cast-out from his society after an accident. He is shunned and ignored, but saved from isolation, for a time, by his sister. However, she is infiltrated with the ghost of decision-making and becomes society's new doctor, after the demise of the last one. With her new......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on August 09, 2020

Brilliant world building full of mystery and otherworldly strangeness, and character development with real emotional resonance. Two critical aspects of a compelling story, rarely done in equal regard with such mastery, and accomplished here with an amazing economy. Plus, as I've come to expect from......more

Goodreads review by Gerhard on December 28, 2018

Another masterclass in world-building from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the superlative Children of Time, with its sequel Children of Ruin out in May 2019. It is great to have Tchaikovsky bring his particular brand of hard sociological SF to the tor.com novella line-up, which continues to attract s......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on December 09, 2021

More of a 3.5 for the rating, I'd just put this novella on the shelf that I'd name "a light-touch fish-out-of-water SF". It's a voyage of self-discovery that reads like a fantasy novel even though there are some rather strong SFnal ties just below the surface that are pretty easy to follow as a reade......more