Children of Time

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Book Overview

Adrian Tchaikovsky's Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.

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?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316452505
• ISBN13: 9780316452502
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Orbit
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

I devoured this book

I could not put this book down, devoured the first 280 pages in a single day. The structure bounces back and forth between two different cultures chapter to chapter as they come closer and closer to collision. I found it to be very compelling, with impressive imagination and insight into what non human intelligence might look like.

This book surprised me.

A very cool evolutionary sci-fi novel. I enjoyed it thoroughly. The parallel stories really kept me interested.