Children of Ruin
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, 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. 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. But those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better left undisturbed.
- Publisher
- Tor
- ISBN-13
- 9780316452533
- Genre
- Topics
- TerraformingFirst contact with alien lifeHuman-alien cooperationEvolution and biotechnologyExistential threats
Awards
- BSFA Award for Best NovelWon(2019)
Other awarded books from Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Shards of Earth (2021)1 win · 12 score
- Alien Clay (2024)0 wins · 10 score
- City of Last Chances (2022)1 win · 10 score
- Children of Time (2015)1 win · 8 score
- Service Model (2024)0 wins · 8 score
- Shroud (2025)0 wins · 5 score
- The Doors of Eden (2020)0 wins · 5 score
- The Tiger and the Wolf (2022)1 win · 5 score
- Cage of Souls (2019)0 wins · 3 score
- Children of Memory (2023)0 wins · 2 score
- Eyes of the Void (2022)0 wins · 2 score
- Guns of the Dawn (2015)0 wins · 2 score
- House of Open Wounds (2023)0 wins · 2 score
- Lords of Uncreation (2023)0 wins · 2 score
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