/lit/ - Literature

The ending sucked. It was the science fiction equivalent of "they lived happily ever after". I think the author grew too fond of his creation and got scared to write a real conflict so he basically just gave them superpowers and a moral high ground, ignoring all the bad he had already wrote previously they had done. It was basically "humanity sucks and has war in their blood, unlike this other species here that besides being born killers that must ignore their base instincts, can live happy in nature. Also they have magic technology otherwise they would never be able to compete with humanity"

I need some thinking birds! The closest I got was Revelation Space, but it didn't count because they were all kill from the beginning and they couldn't fly in the first place.

In exchange, I offer some thinking arthropods. Pretty fun ride. Children of Time. I didn't finish it yet but so far so good. All I wanted in one place: hard sci-fi, voyage through the stars, colonization, contact and some giant bugs as a side-dish.