Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovksy's 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. 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? Span
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For me the book was thought provoking in some ways and annoying in others. I was disappointed that the passage of time wasn't clearly defined. We had humans in suspension for years, coming out of suspension and believing that several generations of humans had lived and died, without any real clarification of how long. Even on the planet it wasn't clear how long an evolved spider's lifetime was and therefore how many generations we had moved through there!
That said I was impressed that the ending showed the enhanced evolution of the spiders, through the nano virus introduced by humans thousands of years previously (!), put them ahead of humans in their understanding that no-one wins in war and we need to learn to live together and so a few spiders give their lives to save all remaining humans, allowing them to start again on the planet that they now have to learn to share.
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