Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Children of Time – Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Humanity is overrated.The tenth anniversary edition of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s critically acclaimed Children of Time – an epic story of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Winner of the 30th anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel. Contains the short story ‘Bearable’ exclusive to this edition.

Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age – a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind’s worst nightmare.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?Continue the journey with Children of Ruin, Children of Memory and Children of Strife. * * *Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky‘Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human’ – Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls.

‘No one has an an imagination like Adrian Tchaikovsky’ – Jim Al-Khalili, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific‘Tchaikovsky is the break-out star of contemporary British SF’ – The GuardianChildren of Time won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel w/c 24 August 2016

 

Format: Paperback / softback 672 pages

Classifications: Space opera

ISBN : 9781035076192

Published : 13 Nov 2025

Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky

Size : 130 x 198 x 42 (mm)

Weight : N/A

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