Children of Time: Children of Time, Book 1 (Unabridged)
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4.4 • 405 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
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?
Customer Reviews
Very enjoyable
Better than most contemporary science fiction and the audiobook is very well done.
A great way of pursuing an alien point of view
In recent years I have been getting back into Sci-Fi and other speculative Fiction largely I gravitate towards classic book from many years ago, but I like to mix in “New” authors too (ones that have published in this century) Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky qualifies as it was published in 2015, and I much enjoyed this tale of non-human intelligence a real look at a society with a different biological background than our own, with the cultural differences you might expect being truly alien to our way of thinking.
Children of Time
There were a few cool sci-fi theories to dig in to but overall pretty light as far as mind benders. Maybe it was the narrator (who is horrible to listen to for an entire book) but there was long sections that were a struggle to get through. Probably the most annoying thing was the underlying wokeness that’s in vogue and ruins modern movies and, well, some books.