Children of Time
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Orbit · Ebook · September 18, 2018
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A distant refuge becomes contested ground in an expansive science-fiction story about survival and inheritance.
- Genres
- Space Opera, Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian
- Published
- Orbit, September 18, 2018
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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. 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.
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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? Read more
A World Claimed
A distant refuge becomes contested ground in an expansive science-fiction story about survival and inheritance.
Come here for
- A terraformed planet with two civilizations struggling to survive
- Space-opera scale and an uneasy question of inheritance
Expect
- Humanity’s survival in the balance
- A collision between civilizations, with no pristine new world in sight
Where it sits
| Space Opera | 81% |
|---|---|
| Dystopian | 43% |
| Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Hard Sci-Fi
- Space Opera
- Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi
- Space Exploration Fiction
- Authors
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Publisher
- Orbit
- Published
- September 18, 2018
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Hard Sci-Fi