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Children of Time

Name: Children of Time
Rating: 5 (9 reviews)
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
ISBN: 9780316452502

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2015 · 640 pages

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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Andrej Karpathy
“Interesting premise on a very high level - follows an alien civilization "booting up" from scratch, intertwined with the shenanigans of a rebooted spacefaring human civilization. Enjoyed the idea of the "classicist". Severe lack of technical bits and pieces, making it overall a quite "soft" sci-fi. A little too long, could probably be compressed by 5X of more. The attempt at world building is valiant, but ultimately quite shallow and not very believable.”↗
PewDiePie
“It's just very interesting. It really made me look differently on, how we value species; I look at the humanity in the future, but overall it was just a fun space adventure. I really enjoyed it. I thought it was it was fun from the beginning to the end.”
Chris Williamson
“Outstanding. In the future, humans try to seed a planet with super-fast evolving primates but everything goes wrong. If you like thinking about far future technologies and the end-point for the human race, you’ll love this. Book 1 also switches each chapter between two consecutive storylines which kind of feels like reading two books at once within the same storyline, very cool. Book 2 made the hairs on my neck stand up and discusses superintelligent Octopi going to war in orbs of water. Just read it.”↗
Adrienne Porter Felt
“@kclemson I adore this book”↗
Seb Lee-Delisle
“@rem Oh that’s the spider one huh? Love that book, so unusual”↗
Dez Blanchfield
“#DezBookChallenge Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky (circa 2015) An epic book about a dying Earth, people are leaving, and there’s a plan to keep some of them safe and the human race flourishing elsewhere - however, things don’t quite pan out how they should.”↗
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