640 pages
English language
Published June 30, 2016
Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by author Adrian Tchaikovsky. The work was praised by the Financial Times for "tackling big themes—gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness—with brio."It was selected from a shortlist of six works and a total pool of 113 books to be awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction of the year in August 2016. The director of the award program said that the novel has a "universal scale and sense of wonder reminiscent of Clarke himself."In July 2017, the rights were optioned for a potential film adaptation.A sequel, Children of Ruin, was published in 2019.
I enjoyed this one a lot. The ending left a little bit more to be desired, but overall it was a great read.
What a great book. I'm so happy I went back to it, and I'm looking forward to starting the second book in the trilogy, probably in the new year.
I would highly recommend this to any and all sci fi fans.
Incredible! "The smartest evolutionary world-building you'll ever read", indeed! I was not expecting that wonderful ending. I was bracing myself for an ending I would not like, but I was wrong!
I can't wait to start the second book.
Amazing. I found the civilization on the terraformed planet to be completely fascinating. I haven’t read or watched a lot of sci-fi, but I remember stories where the humans were the heroes and had to fight alien invaders that would come and try to annihilate them. In this novel it’s pretty much the opposite: the humans are the invaders, and I was rooting for the "other" civilization. The end was also very satisfyingly: somehow surprising, yet consistent with what happened before.
