Children of Time - The Children of Time Novels
Adrian Tchaikovsky

1st paperback ed


Publishers Synopsis

Winner of the 30th anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel.

Adrian Tchaikovksys critically acclaimed novel Children of Time, is the epic story of humanitys 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 mankinds 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?

Continue the far-reaching space opera with Children of Ruin and Children of Memory.

Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human. - Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls.


Book information

ISBN: 9781447273301
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Pan Books
Pub date: 21 Apr 2016
Edition: 1st paperback ed
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Sales rank: 2631
Number of pages: 599
Weight: 422g
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 39mm