It has been waiting through the ages. Now it's time . . . 'Asimov or Clarke might have
written this' - Stephen Baxter co-author of The Long Earth A scout ship discovers a human
outpost lying derelict in space - and a planet better left unexplored. Set in the same universe
as Children of Time this is a thrilling narrative from the award-winning Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Thousands of years ago Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they
called Nod scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with
the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell and the program's decisions were lost
to time. Aeons later humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals
between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel hoping to find cousins from old
Earth. But those ancient terraformers awoke something on Nod. Something better left
undisturbed. And it has been waiting for them. 'Books like this are why we read science
fiction' - Ian McDonald author of the Luna series Children of Ruin follows Adrian
Tchaikovsky's extraordinary Children of Time winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award. It is set
in the same universe with new characters and an original narrative. * * * Praise for the
series: 'Entertaining smart surprising and unexpectedly human' - Patrick Ness author of A
Monster Calls 'Brilliant science fiction and far-out world-building' - James McAvoy 'A
fabulous sense of scale that only someone as talented as Adrian Tchaikovsky can pull off' -
Peter F. Hamilton author of Exodus: The Archimedes Engine Children of Time won the Arthur C.
Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel w c 24 August 2016
