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Children of Time

The 10th Anniversary Edition of the Arthur C. Clarke Award winning science fiction novel
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Humanity is overrated. Children of Time the tenth anniversary edition. This paperback edition features an exclusive short story 'Bearable'. Adrian Tchaikovsky's critically acclaimed novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Winner of the 30th anniversary Arthur... Read More
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Children of Time

A race for survival among the stars . . . Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers? Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel.

A race for survival among the stars . . . Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers?

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Humanity is overrated.

Children of Time the tenth anniversary edition. This paperback edition features an exclusive short story 'Bearable'.

Adrian Tchaikovsky's critically acclaimed novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Winner of the 30th anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel.

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?

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

Series: The Children of Time Novels

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035076192

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 November 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Tor

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 40.0mm

Width: 132.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 450g

Pages: 672

About the Author

Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, has practised law and now writes full time. He's also studied stage-fighting, perpetrated amateur dramatics and has a keen interest in entomology and table-top games. Adrian is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series and other novels, novellas and short stories. Children of Time won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Children of Ruin and Shards of Earth both won the British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel. The Tiger and the Wolf won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel, while And Put Away Childish Things won the BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction.

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