A really unique sci-fi that shows earth separated into factions that are then thrown into chaos when four people who have been living in luxury show up.
Shows how different people can be united by a cause that's more beneficial than the fights that kept them apart.
This is a super quick read that has a lot of good things to think on and has beautiful writing that's expected from Tchaikovsky!

Adrian Tchaikovsky is quickly becoming a sci-fi writer I love diving into. Though some of his books are intense and a bit dark and intricate, there is something about his humorous post-apocalyptic writings which seem to hit me in all the right ways.

Amri is a member of the Rabbit clan (not really a rabbit animal - I was a bit sad) and she is considered the smallest toe which means she is the most expendable and the one they would remove should the clan be threatened. She is doing her best to try and prove her worth gathering resources when she is accosted by the the Seagull clan and she flees back to the burrow of the Rabbit. However, on her way back, she sees something fall from the sky and slam into the ground where the Rabbit clan is. Amri flees from the vines which start to consume the burrow and soon finds herself alone. Until she runs across a spaceman named Guy Vesten who claims to be a god who travelled to the stars to set up a Utopian society. However, something happened in their dream space society, and now he and his "friends" have returned to establish their own versions of civilization in the ruins of Earth.

With Guy taking the lead, Amri and some of the remaining members of Rabbit, Seagull and a few others, help the "god" take down the other "gods" who were once his friends in order to try and establish himself as the supreme deity of the the remnants of earth.

Though this is a novella, this was such a fun ride. I even loved the ending but I am not going to spoil it for you. I highly recommend giving this story a chance!

Well, we did it….. the Earth has been made almost unliveable, with land and water heavily poisoned, inhabited by a wretched remnant who scrabble out short and difficult lives in small tribal groups fighting over the meagre remaining resources. Cities are ruined, technology and science all but forgotten. Not a pretty picture but is there a glimmer of hope?
Before all was lost, four very rich science and tech geniuses leave Earth for a life among the stars, taking the greatest scientific minds of the age with them.
Now, hundreds of years later, they are back, to ‘save’ Earth by remodelling it their own image-only they each have a different view of what that is.
Will they save or damn the remaining life on Earth?
As a novella, there is not the depth of story-building you get with longer works, there’s a lot you need to take at face value with little back story, but what you get is a fast-paced, super little ‘snack’ of a book, shining a light on the consequences of human hubris.
And as a lover of a well-written ending( I do hate stories where a well crafted plot is spoiled by a weak ending), I really liked this one!

Tchaikovsky continues to put out marvelously entertaining science fiction. I absolutely annihilated this in basically a single sitting. Couldn't put it down.

Such a strong story. This has Stirling E. Lanier’s fingerprints all over it. Amri and Beaker both shine, and all the tech bros get what they have coming to them.