Children of Time

paperback, 608 pages

Published June 4, 2015 by Tor.

ISBN:
978-1-4472-7329-5
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OCLC Number:
911035831

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4 stars (261 reviews)

Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's 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 mankind's worst nightmare.

4 editions

reviewed Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)

Review of 'Children of Time' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

This is a book about humanity, and spiderity (is that a word?) from it's peak down to it's rock bottom and then back again.

I don't want to talk too much about it because the story has so much in it, and to describe parts of it would overlook others. Needless to say I was very affected by the story, I cried a lot and felt real links to the plight of people, and to arthropods (that frankly I have somewhat an irrational disgust of).

I can't recommend this enough.

Review of 'Children of Time' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

What an interesting read. I'm so glad I finished it. I had a character moment that I .. just.. umfphforthesakeofallthingsgoodstopingsostupid .. but I let it pass and really really glad I let it go. lol.

It was solid, well thought out; the ingenuity and scale of growth in time and literal evolution is enough, really. You simply have to marvel at a mind that wants to trip the light fandango with uplifting arachnids--arthropods and a multithousand-year-old journey of homo sapiens. You know, what could go wrong?

I had a few character issues which were like hangnails to me due to my usual issue of not-being-me-syndrome. So that can't take away from what is a really good glance at humanity and all its dirty sordid cyclical juvenile-ism.

For a new take, a few lessons in biology, otherwise a really easy to digest science fiction read (despite it's huge scope) I think …

reviewed Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)

Review of 'Children of Time' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

2017: Reposted to my blog to celebrate news that this is being made into a movie by Lionsgate! Team Spider!

2015: If you ever wanted to see zoology turned into science fiction and are not afraid of spiders, read this book.

This was a fascinating read. It starts out in a future where humans are reaching out into space, traveling, and starting to colonize other solar systems. They have only just begun a huge terraforming process on several worlds, when war breaks out and destroys Earth along with all it's colonies.

The reader is then treated to a somewhat strange experience of the viewpoint of a spider. Because one terraforming project survived. The "Brin" project - an obvious reference to David Brin's Uplift series which I have yet to read - where a scientist want to populate a planet with monkeys and a nano-virus supposed to uplift them, by hastening …

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