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 (19 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)

Impressive & audacious vision

5 stars

Spiders undergo enhanced evolution, building an extraordinary new civilisation. Meanwhile the last of humanity searches for a new home, bringing its destructive tendencies with it. Impressive & audacious vision, but lacks engaging characters.

Reading time 6 days, 100 pages/day

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

Good ending, didn't care for the human portions

3 stars

Content warning Discussion of the ending

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

Review of 'Children of Time' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

A very decent read. Even though the point of view from the 'alien' species gave me the squick. There are two storylines going on here. One about the remains of humanity scrabbling about in the remains of their civlisation. One James Michener like tale of the development of an alien species also created by that human civilisation and the first contact thereof. I am maybe not totally raving about it because I did feel the ending was a little too twee and it seemed against the nature of the alien species to me (sorry, avoiding spoilers). I would still recommend though as Tchaikovsky is a major talent and I do plan to continue with this series.

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