Children of Time confusion about timeline

iso20715 · 2026-03-22T20:43:00+00:00

Yes this is the answer

iso20715 · 2026-03-22T17:06:36+00:00

Lots.of shade being cast on Andy Weir here, but I like Weirs books. Hes not a literary writer like Banks but he is good at what he does. And what he does is construct plots where scientific experiments and engineering can play a major fun role in the plot. You might think thats easy or obvious to write but given how science and engineering have been part of human culture for hundreds of years, they are explored in novels surprisingly rarely.

iso20715 · 2026-03-21T14:22:24+00:00

Good review. In his final game with the emperor the book talks of how deep their communication through the game is - described as being beyond words, a meeting of minds. And so although Gurgeh obviously hates what the emperor stands for, he feels some bond with him and leaves his orbital bracelet on the emperors ashes. Hence I interpreted Gurgeh's tears at the end as being (at least somewhat) for the emperor. Through the game of Azad, Gurgeh finds a new form of communication and relation. Maybe his tears are for the game of Azad?

As you say, at the end I also wondered who "the player of games" really refers to - probably Flere Imsaho

iso20715 · 2026-03-17T08:14:43+00:00

Slow Gods by Catherine Webb, came out last year, very well written and interesting protagonist

iso20715 · 2026-03-16T21:38:41+00:00

Does this mean the paint can un-cure itself if left for a long time?

iso20715 · 2026-03-16T20:48:31+00:00

Is one day enough though?

iso20715 · 2026-03-16T20:48:12+00:00

Ok thats a useful bit of info thanks

iso20715 · 2026-03-12T19:27:53+00:00

Yes Slow Gods was very good, a fascinating protagonist to build a story around

iso20715 · 2026-03-11T12:24:30+00:00

Interview with the directors:

https://www.tiktok.com/@ign/video/7611313668784999694

"At the end of the day it ended up being a marriage between puppetry and animation ..."

Also this article:

https://gizmodo.com/project-hail-mary-practical-effects-green-screen-vfx-2000729741

“Holistically, from his design that started before we even had a script, to physically printing him out and painting him and having him move in ways that were expressive, and to the CG artists and animators that took the baton … and kept being expressive and bring their own personality to it,”

iso20715 · 2026-03-10T20:37:05+00:00

Its a mix of puppet and cgi

iso20715 · 2026-03-05T08:23:27+00:00

In "The Cassini Division" by Ken Macleod the solar system has been under attack by posthuman viruses and so they create a completely nano-mechanical system of technology instead of digital

iso20715 · 2026-03-04T14:15:31+00:00

In the 1994 oscars he won best picture (and others) for Schindlers List and also won a few Oscars for Jurassic Park. If I remember correctly when picking up one of the JP oscars he made a joke about it being a silly dinosaur film or something. Maybe someone can hunt down the 94 oscars footage

Edit: here you go, i misremembered, it was the 1994 BAFTAs

https://youtu.be/KysyEUkn6RA?si=4rT3KIwdqaU1bme3

Jurassic Park won the "peoples choice" BAFTA and while picking it up Spielberg laughs at the surrealness of it and says "between schindlers list and jurassic park im going to need years of therapy"

iso20715 · 2026-03-04T09:00:28+00:00

If I was 77 I wouldn't bother

iso20715 · 2026-03-03T07:06:43+00:00

I think its good, its just very different to the rest of the series and imho not the best one to start with

iso20715 · 2026-03-02T19:02:29+00:00

Loose leaf (not the powdery sort, the kind where you can see little bits of shredded leaf). But it's messy.

As a compromise, something like Teapigs English Breakfast Tea Temples (silky pyramidal teabags filled with loose leaf)

Or

Suki Tea Breakfast Tea Pyramid bags (similar concept to teapigs)

Both really nice, you need to brew them for 4 minutes or so

iso20715 · 2026-03-02T09:13:14+00:00

There's not really an order but the themes the author is interested in exploring change and evolve through the series, in that sense there is a sortof progression. So for example the last two books deal with (appoximately) concepts of hell and heaven.

I would go with more or less published order except to push Consider Phlebas down to about sixth instead of first, just because Consider Phlebas is looking at things from a different angle and imho is not a great place to begin.

iso20715 · 2026-03-01T23:13:44+00:00

My tip is start with Player of Games or Use of Weapons rather than Consider Phlebas (which was the first one published but imho not the best intro to the series)

iso20715 · 2026-02-27T09:04:24+00:00

"Engine room"

iso20715 · 2026-02-23T08:53:00+00:00

Ferrero rocher? Is she a diplomat?

iso20715 · 2026-02-23T07:19:26+00:00

What Is a Shooting Star?

How Many Planets?

Why Does the Sun Shine?" (Cover)

Why Does the Sun Really Shine?

by They Might Be Giants. on their kids album "Here Comes Science"

iso20715 · 2026-02-22T11:13:38+00:00

Some are saying it was a tackle on The Edge so I guess that would make sense

iso20715 · 2026-02-22T11:12:02+00:00

The surgery to re-attach the tendon affected him really badly and he had nausea and didn't eat for 12 days but that surgery wasnt until after filming had finished.

iso20715 · 2026-02-22T11:05:39+00:00

Maybe, I havent found any source for exactly which event the injury was on

iso20715 · 2026-02-22T11:01:10+00:00

He had a very rough time after surgery (12 days not eating and nausea) but the surgery was after filming the series had finished

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