Children of Time: Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: 1 (The Children of Time Novels, 1)

Name: Children of Time: Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: 1 (The Children of Time Novels, 1)
Brand: PAN
Price: 12.50 EUR
Availability: InStock

(0) Reseñas

Humanity is overrated.

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s critically acclaimed Children of Time is an epic story of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet.

Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel.

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.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?

Continue the journey with Children of Ruin, Children of Memory and Children of Strife.

* * *

Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky

‘Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human’
- Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls

‘No one has an an imagination like Adrian Tchaikovsky’
– Jim Al-Khalili, presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific

‘Tchaikovsky is the break-out star of contemporary British SF’
– The Guardian

Comprar en Amazon: 12.50 €

Marca :PAN

Categoría :Acción y aventura

Descripción
Reseñas

Descripción del producto

Críticas

Brilliant science fiction and far out world building. -- James McAvoy

Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human. -- Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls and the Chaos Walking series

Has a fabulous sense of scale that only someone as talented as Adrian Tchaikovsky can pull off . . . Very much recommended. -- Peter F. Hamilton, author of Salvation and Exodus: The Archimedes Engine

This is superior stuff, tackling big themes - gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness - with brio ― Financial Times

I cannot recommend it enough. It's a helluva first contact story, and that's only like its 5th most interesting feature! -- Ezra Klein, New York Times columnist

All underpinned by great ideas. And it is crisply modern - but with the sensibility of classic science fiction. Asimov or Clarke might have written this -- Stephen Baxter, author of Proxima, on Children of Ruin

One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction -- Christopher Paolini, author of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

No one has an imagination like Adrian Tchaikovsky -- Jim Al-Khalili, presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific

I swear the man is some kind of genius -- Peter Watts, author of Blindsight

Tchaikovsky is the break-out star of contemporary British SF ― The Guardian

A huge talent, writing at the peak of his powers ― New Scientist

Comentario del autor

Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire before heading off to Reading to study psychology and zoology. For reasons unclear even to himself he subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives. Married, he is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor, has trained in stage-fighting, and keeps no exotic or dangerous pets of any kind, possibly excepting his son.

Nota de la solapa

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.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?

Contraportada

A race for survival among the stars . . . Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers? Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel.

Biografía del autor

Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, has practised law and now writes full time. He's also studied stage-fighting, perpetrated amateur dramatics and has a keen interest in entomology and table-top games.

Adrian is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series and other novels, novellas and short stories. Children of Time won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Children of Ruin and Shards of Earth both won the British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel. The Tiger and the Wolf won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel, while And Put Away Childish Things won the BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction.