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TCHAIKOVSKY ADRIAN CHILDREN OF TIME 10TH ANNIVE...

Humanity is overrated. The tenth anniversary edition of Adrian Tchaikovsky's critically
acclaimed Children of Time - an epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed
planet. Winner of the 30th anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel.  Contains the
short story 'Bearable' exclusive to this edition.   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?   Continue the journey
with Children of Ruin and Children of Memory .   * * *   Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky    '
Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining  smart  surprising and
unexpectedly human' - Patrick Ness  author of A Monster Calls .   'No one has an an imagination
like Adrian Tchaikovsky' - Jim Al-Khalili  presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific   
'Tchaikovsky is the break-out star of contemporary British SF' - The Guardian   Children of
Time won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel w c 24 August 2016

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