Children of Ruin
Children of Time, Book 2
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Science Fiction, Science Fiction, and Science.
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the awardwinning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.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 grea...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Science Fiction, Science Fiction, and Science.
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Ezra Klein
“@AGKD123 I read Children of Ruin and Shards of Earth this year too, went on a real Tchaikovsky kick! They're all great, but CoT is a masterwork, even if Shards is, in some ways, probably a more wellconstructed book.”
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