Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
A race for survival among the stars . . . Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers? Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel.
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 The Life Scientific
Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human. -- Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls
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 Pandora's Star and EXODUS: The Archimedes Engine
I swear the man is some kind of genius -- Peter Watts, author of Blindsight
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, New York Times 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 *
No one has an imagination like Adrian Tchaikovsky -- Jim Al-Khalili, presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific
Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human. -- Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls
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 Pandora's Star and EXODUS: The Archimedes Engine
I swear the man is some kind of genius -- Peter Watts, author of Blindsight
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, New York Times 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 *
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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| ISBN 13 | 9781035076192 |
| ISBN 10 | 1035076195 |
| Title | Children of Time |
| Author | Adrian Tchaikovsky |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2025-11-13 |
| Number of pages | 624 |
| Prizes | Winner of The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016 (UK) |
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