Children of Time
Published on 21. April 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
608 pages
978-1-4472-7330-1 (ISBN)
Description
Humanity is overrated.
Adrian Tchaikovsky's critically acclaimed Children of Time - an epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel.
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.
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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 Guardian
Children of Time won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel w/c 24 August 2016
Adrian Tchaikovsky's critically acclaimed Children of Time - an epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel.
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 Guardian
Children of Time won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel w/c 24 August 2016
Reviews / Votes
Brilliant science fiction and far out world building. -- James McAvoy Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human. -- Patrick Ness, author of <i>A Monster Calls</i> and the Chaos Walking series Has a fabulous sense of scale that only someone as talented as Adrian Tchaikovsky can pull off . . . Very much recommended. -- Peter F. Hamilton, author of <i>Salvation</i> and <i>Exodus: The Archimedes Engine</i> This is superior stuff, tackling big themes - gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness - with brio * Financial Times * I cannot recommend it enough. It's a helluva first contact story, and that's only like its 5th most interesting feature! -- Ezra Klein, <i>New York Times</i> columnist All underpinned by great ideas. And it is crisply modern - but with the sensibility of classic science fiction. Asimov or Clarke might have written this -- Stephen Baxter, author of <i>Proxima</i>, on <i>Children of Ruin</i> One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction -- Christopher Paolini, author of <i>To Sleep in a Sea of Stars</i> No one has an imagination like Adrian Tchaikovsky -- Jim Al-Khalili, presenter of BBC Radio 4's <i>The Life Scientific</i> I swear the man is some kind of genius -- Peter Watts, author of <i>Blindsight</i> Tchaikovsky is the break-out star of contemporary British SF * The Guardian * A huge talent, writing at the peak of his powers * New Scientist *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
424 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4472-7330-1 (9781447273301)
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Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Time
Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
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Person
Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire before heading off to Reading to study psychology and zoology. For reasons unclear even to himself he subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives. Married, he is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor, has trained in stage-fighting, and keeps no exotic or dangerous pets of any kind, possibly excepting his son.
He is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, Echoes of the Fall series, and Children of Time, the winner of the 30th Anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
He is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, Echoes of the Fall series, and Children of Time, the winner of the 30th Anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.