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by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Children of Ruin
Children of Ruin

First contact terror with alien intelligence twists

If you love big-idea science fiction that feels genuinely strange, this is the kind of sequel people rave about for being even bolder than the first. It blends space exploration, unsettling first contact, and a creeping sense of dread in a way that keeps the story intellectually rich and deeply tense. What really stays with readers is how alien the alien truly feels.

  • British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel (2019)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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by Adrian Tchaikovsky
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ISBN: 9780316452533
Authors: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher: Orbit
Date of Publication: 2019-05-14
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Fantasy, Science Fiction
Related Topics: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Aliens
Goodreads rating: 4.05
(rated by 67455 readers)

Description

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning 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 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. And it's been waiting for them.
 

First contact terror with alien intelligence twists

If you love big-idea science fiction that feels genuinely strange, this is the kind of sequel people rave about for being even bolder than the first. It blends space exploration, unsettling first contact, and a creeping sense of dread in a way that keeps the story intellectually rich and deeply tense. What really stays with readers is how alien the alien truly feels.

  • British Science Fiction Association Award for Best Novel (2019)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2019)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.