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Dad, data engineer, novelist, nature lover. Living in Ann Arbor, MI.

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

Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Time (Paperback, 2016, Pan Books)

Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by author Adrian Tchaikovsky. The work …

Felt like a teen again, reading some top-notch sci fi

Quite a feat of writing: Literary language, engaging plot, clever ending, amazing world-building, thought-provoking questions. The humans weren't quite as interesting as the spiders, sure, but their story was a good foil and drove the plot.

finished reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)

Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Time (Paperback, 2016, Pan Books)

Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by author Adrian Tchaikovsky. The work …

Gosh that was good! Literary language, engaging plot, clever ending, amazing world-building, thought-provoking questions.

My favorite part was a pair of chapters that had a tender moment between spiders and then one between humans, back to back.

started reading Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)

Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Time (Paperback, 2016, Pan Books)

Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by author Adrian Tchaikovsky. The work …

About 300 pages in already and loving it. It feels like reading Ender's Game for the first time as a teen.

Julia Elliott: Hellions (2025, Tin House Books, LLC)

In a plague-stricken medieval convent, a nun works on a forbidden mystic manuscript. In rural …

I read one or two each day and enjoyed them. There are some images that repeat between stories, like a thatch of hair on a shower drain, but otherwise they were different enough, with varying degrees of the supernatural and darkness.