Children of Time (Unabridged)
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4.5 • 252 Ratings
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- $25.99
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- $25.99
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
Incredible, unique
This book was so unexpected and I am so glad I took the word of the reviews. What a unique story. Highly recommend this!
(If you have serious arachnophobia you might want to skip it).
Bonkers
If you’re looking for a creative science fiction book, this is it. Very entertaining and engaging.
Excellent
Children of Time is fascinating on several levels at the same time. It’s loosely a metaphor of one possible way life evolved on Earth. It teaches about how intelligence can develop or degrade in a species. It is an example of how things can develop in a chaotic way. And it teaches not to give up hope. No wonder it won the Arthur C Clarke award; Clarke would have loved it, too. Likely Dave would have, as well.