Just finished book 10/10 in Tchaikovsky’s “Shadows of the Apt” series. I highly recommend it.

For me it was an interesting blend of the political/military games of Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire and the intersection of magic and technology in Sanderson’s Cosmere.

Tchaikovsky’s most well known for Children of Time but although I like the third book in that series a lot the first two were a little meh for me. I liked the concepts and world building but the perspectives of octopi and spiders was kind of a drag for me. Somehow I liked the raven stuff though.

I would also recommend Tchaikovsky’s The Final Architecture series if you’re into the sci-fi more than the fantasy aspects.

Currently reading the Malazan Book of the Fallen series, and have been for a while at this point. It does a lot of stuff, even for its page count, but I really like the way the authors write their world and their magic. It truly feels like a completely different world that on a pretty fundamental level works in a different way, something which I feel like few fantasy series accomplish. Wonderful stuff.

I don’t keep track of stuff that’s currently getting written, but I’m curious about Jeff Vandermeer’s next book in the Southern Reach trilogy,

Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds which is the 2nd part of the series. Absolutely top-notch hard sci-fi space opera. After reading Revelation Space Mr. Reynolds already caught my attention and rocketed himself into my personal pantheon of the greats alongside Stanislaw Lem, Strugatsky brothers, Robert Sheckley, Harry Harrison, Larry Niven etc.