Why did I love this book?
I love a good science fiction story, and in this book, Adrian Tchaikovsky is in top form. Here is a crisp, intelligent, engaging, and well-written space opera—one of the finest in a generation.
In it, Tchaikovsky shows off his visionary grip on future human possibilities, his biological understanding of evolution, and how it might be artificially accelerated—in spiders, for God’s sake!
9 authors picked Children of Time as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
Winner of the 30th anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel
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…