Interspersed throughout the book are vignettes of these other Earths, each taking a branch of evolution as their jumping off point. Read more: Tale of world of supersmart spiders takes Clarke SF award All of them are drawn together to face a coming crisis: things have increasingly begun to cross over from other timelines, putting every universe at risk. The main narrative starts small with two young women on the hunt for cryptids, mysterious animals like the Loch Ness monster, but expands to encompass MI5 agents, a chain-smoking trans mathematician and a shadowy businessman. Tchaikovsky’s world-building is some of the best in modern sci-fi and now he has made an enchanting multiverse of parallel Earths. The British sci-fi and fantasy author memorably brought a civilisation of intelligent spiders to life in the award-winning Children of Time, but his latest book, The Doors of Eden, takes this idea one further, uplifting species across the whole of Earth’s evolutionary history. You never quite know what to expect from a new Adrian Tchaikovsky novel, but you can safely assume it will involve sentient creepy-crawlies. Adrian Tchaikovsky’s latest novel The Doors of Eden rewrites Earth’s evolutionary history
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