Description
| Product ID: | 9781509865857 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The Children of Time Novels |
| Title: | Children of Ruin |
| Authors: | Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| Page Count: | 576 |
| Subjects: | Science fiction: space opera, Space opera |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In this powerful narrative, a human outpost lies derelict in space until a scout ship discovers it, and a planet best left unexplored . . . From the author of the hugely acclaimed Children of Time, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. <p><b>'My most anticipated book of the year' - Peter F. Hamilton, Britain's no.1 science fiction writer</b><br><br><b><i>Children of Ruin</i> follows Adrian Tchaikovsky's extraordinary <i>Children of Time, </i>winner of the </b><b>Arthur C. Clarke award. It is set in the same universe, with new characters and a thrilling narrative.</b><br><br><b>It has been waiting through the ages. </b><b>Now it's time . . .<br></b><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>But those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better left undisturbed.<br><br>And it’s been waiting for them.<br><br><b>'Books like this are why we read science fiction' </b><br><b>- Ian McDonald, author of the Luna series</b><br><br><b>All underpinned by great ideas. And it is crisply modern - but with the sensibility of classic science fiction'</b><br><b>Stephen Baxter, author of the Long Earth series (with Terry Pratchett)</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-02-20 |