Children of Time

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Author(s):

Adrian Tchaikovsky

First Pub:

2015

Genre(s):

Dark Humor; Science Fiction

First Read:

2023

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Chapters:

See 64

1 - Genesis

1.1 - Just a Barrel of Monkeys

1.2 - Brave Little Huntress

1.3 - The Lights Go Out

2 - Pilgrimage

2.1 - Two Thousand Years from Home

2.2 - Earth's Other Children

2.3 - Enigma Variations

2.4 - Poor Relations

2.5 - All These Worlds Are Yours

2.6 - Mtropolis

2.7 - Exodus

3 - War

3.1 - Rude Awakening

3.2 - Fire and the Sword

3.3 - Rock and the Hard Place

3.4 - By the Western Ocean

3.5 - Bearing a Flaming Sword

3.6 - Dulce et Decorum Est

3.7 - War in Heaven

3.8 - Asymmetrical Warefare

3.9 - First Contact

3.10 - Giants in the Earth

3.11 - This Island Gulag

3.12 - A Voice in the Wilderness

4 - Enlightenment

4.1 - The Cave of Wonders

4.2 - Death Comes Riding

4.3 - Notes from a Grey Planet

4.4 - Enquiring Minds

4.5 - Dreams of the Ancients

4.6 - The Messenger Within

4.7 - Not Prince Hamlet

4.8 - Age of Progress

4.9 - Ex Machina

5 - Schism

5.1 - The Prisoner

5.2 - The God's Country

5.3 - Old Friends

5.4 - The Right to Life

5.5 - The Oldest Man in the Universe

5.6 - Resource War

5.7 - Ascension

5.8 - Conquering Hero

6 - Zenith / Nadir

6.1 - The Balloon Goes Up

6.2 - An Old Man in a Harsh Season

6.3 - Communion

6.4 - Epiphany

6.5 - Things Fall Apart

6.6 - And Touched the Face of God

7 - Collision

7.1 - War Footing

7.2 - What Rough Beast

7.3 - Maiden, Mother, Crone

7.4 - End Times

7.5 - Manoeuvres

7.6 - Breaking the Shell

7.7 - The War Outside

7.8 - The War Inside

7.9 - Last Stand

7.10 - The Quality of Mercy

8 - Diaspora

8.1 - To Boldly Go

Internal ID:

13448

Series:

Children of Ruin ->

Children of Time*

#1 of 3

Children of Time*

A series of science fiction novels by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

View this series in the book list

1) Children of Time
2) Children of Ruin
3) Children of Memory

Copyright:

Dedication:

To Portia

First Sentence:

There were no windows in the Brin 2 facility - rotation meant that 'outside' was always 'down', underfoot, out of mind.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

After all the years, the wars, the tragedies and the loss, the spiders and the monkeys are returning to the stars to seek their inheritance.

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Added: 07-Dec-2022

Last Updated: 28-Feb-2023

Publications

02-May-2017

Audible Studios

Audiobook

Date Issued:

02-May-2017

Format:

Audiobook

Cover Price:

$25.99

Length:

16 hrs 31 min (609 pages)

"Read":

Once

Reading(s):

1) 23 Feb 2023 - 28 Feb 2023

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

12950

Publisher:

Audible Studios

ISBN:

Unknown

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Mel Hudson - Narration

From audible.com:

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 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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Author(s)

Adrian Tchaikovsky
Birth: 27 Apr 1986 London, England, UK

Notes:

From his website (About the Author):

Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the acclaimed Shadows of the Apt fantasy series, from the first volume, Empire In Black and Gold in 2008 to the final book, Seal of the Worm, in 2014, with a new series and a standalone science fiction novel scheduled for 2015. He has been nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award and a British Fantasy Society Award. In civilian life he is a lawyer, gamer and amateur entomologist.

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