One Day All This Will Be Yours in Do Better: SFF without Sexual Violence

Mar 23, 2021 *Tau* rated it really liked it

Shelves: netgalley, reviews, humour

Humorous time traveling novella

I am the full stop to the sentence that is human history. That's the point.

We never get to know the name of the main character of this time traveling novella.
But as he slowly unfolds his story, more and more details are revealed both about his past and his present life.
Because he now lives alone at the end times, also known as the postepochalypse.
Well, not entirely alone …

She might be several tons of ravaging therapod dinosaur, but the old girl is also just

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Aug 22, 2021 Kristenelle rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2021-novellas

What. A. Trip. This was such a whackadoodle, nihilistic, dry humored, silly, philosophical...thought experiment? We get a first person pov and really explore the ramifications of time travel. It didn't make total sense...as time travel stories are wont to not. It was also very Euro-centric. The MC goes back in time and plays with almost exclusively European historical figures. Go figure. But it was interesting. It made me think and it made me laugh.

Sexual violence? No. Other content warnings? Y ...more

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Apr 02, 2021 Leticia rated it it was amazing

Shelves: novella, netgalley-reads, all-time-favorites

Brilliant in so many mind-blowing ways. This novella starts a bit grim (it's the end of times after all) but at the end I was laughing. The shenanigans the relatable characters got into were so extremely funny.
I won't get into more details here because the less you know the better; just read this, it's one of the best novellas I read so far.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. ...more

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Dec 12, 2020 Jess rated it really liked it

Shelves: arc, read-2020

Prior to One Day All This Will Be Yours, the only Adrian Tchaikovsky I had read (and admittedly adored) was his Children of Time series. As these are epic doorstoppers, I wasn't sure what to expect from his shorter works.
I'm pleased to say that I greatly enjoyed this - it's a quick and gripping read, and I loved the darkly humorous tone. Despite being so utterly fun, there are also some interesting trains of thought to be followed, and I think the world of this book will stay with me for a whil ...more

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