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

Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrator: Shaun Grindell

Unabridged: 4 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/21/2021


Synopsis

In Adrian Tchaikovsky's The Expert System's Champion, sometimes the ones you hate are the only ones that can save you.

It's been ten years since Handry was wrenched away from his family and friends, forced to wander a world he no longer understood. But with the help of the Ancients, he has cobbled together a life, of sorts, for himself and his fellow outcasts.

Wandering from village to village, welcoming the folk that the townships abandon, fighting the monsters the villagers cannot—or dare not—his ever-growing band of misfits has become the stuff of legend, a story told by parents to keep unruly children in line.

But there is something new and dangerous in the world, and the beasts of the land are acting against their nature, destroying the towns they once left in peace.

And for the first time in memory, the Ancients have no wisdom to offer . . .

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 Jamie on February 03, 2021

My mind is blown. Again. Just when I thought I had figured out where this was going, BAM! Now I feel ashamed at having thought that Adrian Tchaikovsky might have dreamed up something that us mere mortals could have envisioned. At this point I should realize that he needs to be judged by a whole new......more

Goodreads review by Justine on February 24, 2021

I reminded myself that we were the lords of the unnatural. We had made ourselves the ambassadors between the people of the villages and that other unseen world the ancestors had come from. The world these stone-men had come from, too. There could be no other way of it. We were cousins beneath the sk......more

Goodreads review by Wick on June 12, 2024

It's a cool continuation of the prior novella although in a completely different direction. The developments were interesting but kind of felt contrived and arbitrary. I love the world developed and the main character. These two short books are definitely worth your time.......more

Goodreads review by Tim on April 02, 2022

I was never big on bio-SF, and on top of that I have just learned that this is #2 in a series. Still, I'm left with the feeling that there are too many ideas here for novella length, but not enough that we can get a grip on to provide a solid base for novel length. In a novella you can answer "how d......more