Awards

• Winner of The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016 (UK)

Overview

Humanity is overrated. Children of Time the tenth anniversary edition. This paperback edition features an exclusive short story 'Bearable'. Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed novel Children of Time, is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Winner of the 30th anniversary 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? 'Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human.' - Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls.

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Reviews

Brilliant science fiction and far out world building. -- James McAvoy No one has an imagination like Adrian Tchaikovsky -- Jim Al-Khalili, presenter of BBC Radio 4's <i>The Life Scientific</i> 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> 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>Pandora's Star</i> and <i>EXODUS: The Archimedes Engine</i> I swear the man is some kind of genius -- Peter Watts, author of <i>Blindsight</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 Tchaikovsky is the break-out star of contemporary British SF * The Guardian * A huge talent, writing at the peak of his powers * New Scientist *

Author Information

Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, has practised law and now writes full time. He's also studied stage-fighting, perpetrated amateur dramatics and has a keen interest in entomology and table-top games. Adrian is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series and other novels, novellas and short stories. Children of Time won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Children of Ruin and Shards of Earth both won the British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel. The Tiger and the Wolf won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel, while And Put Away Childish Things won the BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction.

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