Children of Ruin
Ratings173
Average rating4
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Ratings173
Average rating4
'My most anticipated book of the year' - Peter F. Hamilton, Britain's no.1 science fiction writer 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 a thrilling narrative. It has been waiting through the ages. Now it's time . . . 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 woke something on Nod better left undisturbed. And it’s been waiting for them. 'Books like this are why we read science fiction' - Ian McDonald, author of the Luna series All underpinned by great ideas. And it is crisply modern - but with the sensibility of classic science fiction' Stephen Baxter, author of the Long Earth series (with Terry Pratchett)
Series
3 primary booksChildren of Time is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2015 with contributions by Adrian Tchaikovsky.
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Manages to make “We're going on an adventure” the most terrifying thing to hear.
Take the spiders from the previous book, add octopuses, a planet full of strange aliens, and a dangerous swarm intelligence.
A good follow up to the first book. The author makes a great effort to look at how intelligent octopus would interact with other life, just as he did with arachnids in the first.
The main problem with these books is the reader doesn't have a character to follow throughout both books. Ivanna is one of the only characters the reader can follow but who has gone from being a human to a computer to good knows what she is now.
A good hook at the end with introducing the faster then light drive (FTL). I'm hoping to see life which humans had no hand in creating and how the new formed union of species in their ships will interact with them.
A good yarn, as long as you can ignore the impossible science and biology.
