Elder Race

NOW NOMINATED FOR THE 2022 URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE FOR FICTION

A great pick for this award- it embodies much of Le Guin's work and is certainly award-worthy.

Prior review:

What an absolutely brilliant novella... Certainly one of Tchaikovsky's best. This feels like a better executed and more interesting version of THE EXPERT SYSTEM'S BROTHER, exploring similar themes of colonists of old coming into contact with the “natives”. It's partly Planet of Exiles, it's very much Hard to be a God, and it even feels a bit fairytale-esque.

A must-read for Tchaikovsky fans.