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Children of Time

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.

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?

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Published Dec 11, 2018

640 pages

Average rating: 8.02

132 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

jhwarren
Oct 24, 2025
9/10 stars
Solid world building and a novel concept for a space opera. It’s a dense book, took a long time to read but I enjoyed every moment and will continue to read the series.
Suzanne82
Aug 16, 2025
10/10 stars
This was so much fun. What a well-explored what-if!
Ly
Jul 21, 2025
Ly
JackboxAudience
Jul 08, 2025
6/10 stars
Spiders were tough. Everything else was great. But the spiders..
Lauren Greely
Jul 01, 2025
2/10 stars
DNF

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