Let’s get straight into it, because this is possibly one of the best musicals I’ve seen in a long time.
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So I am a very sad person who has the Wikipedia mobile app downloaded on their phone. 😂
And it was whilst browsing Wikipedia that I came across the article for the Kola Superdeep Borehole. I found it quite interesting, so continued researching the concept of digging deep into the Earth. That was when I came across 12 Kilometers.
Most science fiction takes one of two stances: a positive one of exploration and discovery (à la Star Trek), or a dystopia where humanity is being brutally oppressed or even is the one doing the oppressing.
Adrian Tchaikovsky takes a slightly different path from either, but does tend to lean towards the negative. His books contain a brilliant impression of interstellar travel by humanity into the far future, with a refreshing sense of pessimism. 😂
I’d been quite excited to read this one for a while. It was a Christmas present, and I’d been told that Ursula Le Guin was “the birth of modern fantasy”. Tolkien’s predating her by about a decade aside, it was certainly interesting.
One disclaimer: the edition I read was the original Earthsea quartet of A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, and Tehanu. It did not include the two later books written to finish the series.