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  • Lords of Uncreation: The Final Architecture, Book 3
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Lords of Uncreation: The Final Architecture, Book 3 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Adrian Tchaikovsky (Author), Sophie Aldred (Narrator), Tor (Publisher)
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He's found a way to end their war, but will humanity survive to see it?

Lords of Uncreation is the final high-octane instalment in the Final Architecture space opera trilogy. From Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time and winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

The series is read by Sophie Aldred (Doctor Who)

Idris Telemmier has uncovered a secret that changes everything – the Architects’ greatest weakness. A shadowy cartel scrambles to turn his discovery into a weapon against these alien destroyers of worlds. But between them and victory stands self-interest. The galaxy’s great powers would rather pursue their own agendas than stand together against this shared terror.

Human and inhuman interests wrestle to control Idris’ discovery, as the galaxy erupts into a mutually destructive and self-defeating war. The other great obstacle to striking against their alien threat is Idris himself. He knows that the Architects, despite their power, are merely tools of a higher intelligence.

Deep within unspace, where time moves differently, and reality isn’t quite what it seems, their masters are the true threat. Masters who are just becoming aware of humanity’s daring – and taking steps to exterminate this annoyance forever.

‘One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction’ – Christopher Paolini, author of Fractal Noise

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  1. Book 3 of 3
    The Final Architecture
  2. Listening Length
    20 hours and 49 minutes
  3. Author
    Adrian Tchaikovsky
  4. Narrator
    Sophie Aldred
  5. Audible release date
    April 27 2023
  6. Language
    English
  7. Publisher
    Tor
  8. ASIN
    B0BLT1Z9GD
  9. Version
    Unabridged
  10. Program Type
    Audiobook
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Book 3 of 3 The Final Architecture
Listening Length 20 hours and 49 minutes
Author Adrian Tchaikovsky
Narrator Sophie Aldred
Audible.ca Release Date April 27 2023
Publisher Tor
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B0BLT1Z9GD
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  • Elwyn Evans
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
    Reviewed in Canada on May 13, 2023
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    Tchaikovsky is one of my favorite authors and this is another great addition to his work. If you like his stuff just buy it. great new book written in the same vein.
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  • bogblast
    4.0 out of 5 stars The Architects You Shouldn't Hire For Your Reno
    Reviewed in Canada on February 14, 2025
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    This trilogy is an enjoyable space opera, the central plot involving aliens called "Architects" who destroy worlds in a cataclysmic, though artistic manner. It is another of Mr. Tchaikovsky's reliable sci-fi excursions. I did take a star off as the 2nd half of the 3rd novel takes a decided turn for the comic and rollicking - not that that style is unenjoyable, but it seems something of a departure from the impending doom/race against time mood of most of the trilogy. It may be meant to be gallows humor of the protagonists, but when a sci-fi novel starts to read like a Guardians of The Galaxy movie, you can guess how it is going to end.
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  • 鶹 Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Lords of creation
    Reviewed in Canada on June 25, 2023
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    Great sci-fi novel
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  • Couply App
    5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible end. One of my absolute favorite series of all time.
    Reviewed in Canada on May 14, 2023
    I think all you need to know is that he stuck the landing.

    I just loved this series. Swashbuckling adventure, epic space opera action and great characters.

    10/10. We’re so lucky to experience a truly prolific Adrian Tchaikovsky at his absolute peak.

    I doubt he’ll read this but if he does- THANK YOU!
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  • mholyome
    4.0 out of 5 stars Finally getting around to reading this.
    Reviewed in Canada on December 27, 2023
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    I'm 1/5th of the way through it, and in typical Adrian Tchaikovsky fashion, it's exciting and full of suspense. Unspace!?! Common, get with it! Unreality! Love it.
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  • Kelly Coccimillo
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
    Reviewed in Canada on May 21, 2023
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    The book has some minor inconsistencies but, in general, it was a great story! I really wish there was more!
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  • Alan Carmody
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Feast for Connoisseurs of Sci Fi on a Grand Scale
    Reviewed in Australia on October 22, 2023
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    Thoroughly enjoyed this series as it builds from the mundane, through a seemingly unending series of escalating battles for the characters at all levels from internal emotions and fears to all of time and space and finally explodes in a cultural supernova with the dying embers to recount and bask in the journey. Most satisfying!
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  • JPS
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente livro e trilogia
    Reviewed in Spain on October 6, 2023
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    A imaginação do Adrian é incrível e o detalhe é passo da narrativa também. Para mim é dos melhores escritores SciFi, a par com o Peter Hamilton, Frank Herbert, L Ron Hubbard.
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  • Charles Boyer
    5.0 out of 5 stars I Couldn't Wait To Finish This Story, But Wish It Hadn't Ended
    Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2023
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    This is an excellent series, with superb universe-building, well-crafted characters and a solid plot from start to finish. This we have come to expect from Adrian Tchaikovsky, and in The Final Architecture, he delivers.

    The final book of the trilogy takes place a bit after the conclusion of its middle novel, and it begins with the major factions in the first two books in an uneasy detente. All are working to figure out how to stop the Architects from remodeling populated planets by taking the fight them in "unspace." Or are they?

    Not all is at is seems at the surface, and eventually, an unholy alliance is formed, upsetting the balance of power. The crew of the Vulture God, the spy for Hugh and the self-anointed aliens - the Essiel - are of course, in the middle of all of the events. Without dropping any spoilers, the book ties up almost every loose thread, wraps up the story and left me thinking about what I'd read for quite a while after I finished it.

    Tchaikovsky could write another three trilogies in the Architecture universe. It's a fascinating and unique place he's created, with artificial life rather reminiscent of honeybees, a utopian sect of genetically engineered warriors, unfathomable aliens and humanity frayed well past the point one would expect it to shatter into oblivion. Then there is unspace -- dimensions outside of reality that drive almost everyone insane shortly after entry. These are not cliche tropes, even if we've encountered something like them in other novels through the years. There surely are a lot more stories there, and if Adrian Tchaikovsky ever decides to write them, I'll happily read them when they're released.
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  • Cliente 鶹
    5.0 out of 5 stars Breathless and brilliant
    Reviewed in Italy on May 3, 2023
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    A great finish to The Final Architecture series. Not everything was unexpected but Adrian Tchaikovsky pulls us along with all the force of one of his gravitic drives. I really wanted to know more about the main characters' journeys, about what fate (or fates!) the universe was going to face. The author's characterisation is so powerful, so convincing, his universe-building (and unbuilding) so compelling. There is an accumulation of details, of backstories, of hints and references which never drag at the reader's enjoyment of the breakneck pacing, the breathless rush of the plot. Nothing is thrown away. Details are not just noise or fillers, nor are they captions or didactic exposition. The shifting, and sometimes concurrent, narrative perspectives are not there to dazzle or bludgeon. They add energy and empathy. They anchor the sprawling, cosmos-spanning action, reminding us that in the end, even against the crushing, incomprehensible odds hurled at us by a universe that does not care, what really matters are people, individually and collectively. Our choices, our failures, our struggles, our impulse and conviction to just be. I need to come down from the high the book has given me, let a little time pass by, and then I think I'll re-read the whole trilogy!
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  • Mark D.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Epic
    Reviewed in France on February 20, 2025
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    If at some point in the future these books are made into a movie, I hope it does it justice in much the same way at the LOTR series
    It deserves that treatment. Amazing story line , great characters that you can identify with and feel empathy for. All in a universe that is written is a believable and understandable way.

    I finished it and I'm lost without it!
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