The Undisputed KING of Science Fiction!

In his 2024 novel alien clay which to this day is my favorite of his books therefore I guess technically my favorite science fiction novel ever it used to be children of time but I can never stop myself from just dwelling on this novel whenever I have a quiet 5 minutes it just appears in my head and I think about it over and over

In Children of Ruin which you could read without having read children of time but I would recommend reading them in order chaikovsky asks that question again but instead of spiders this time it's octopuses and it is octopuses okay not octopi and the book spends quite a while at the beginning talking about the difference between the two and it's really fun because people like me who are really pedantic about it get made fun of like I'm thinking it's octopuses not octopi and then chaikovsky comes along through one of his characters and explains why I am a loser and I really appreciate that

It used to be children of time but I can never stop myself from just dwelling on this novel whenever I have a quiet 5 minutes it just appears in my head and I think about it over and over

Shroud dials that up to 11 it's not strictly a horror novel but it certainly feels like his most oppressive and claustrophobic work it is literally the darkest thing he's written and that's because it is set on a moon that orbits a gas Giant and that moon is entirely shrouded in darkness