Book Review: Children of Time

Children of Time
By Adrian Tchaikovsky
Review by Josh       

A truly trippy space Odyssey set in the far future- and then the really far future- Tchaikovsky’s Sci-Fi prowess is on full display. As Earth becomes no longer inhabitable, the last remnants of the dying human race set forth to the stars in one last desperate bid for survival. When they come across one of ancient Earth’s terraforming projects, they think they’ve found a new home, but the spider civilization already living there may not agree. Tchaikovsky’s ability to humanize while keeping them fully alien these otherworldly spiders is a feat to behold; even the staunchest arachnophobe will find common cause with Portia and her peers. The novel traverses thousands of years as the humans sleep away the long years in cryosleep and so the reader is bought along the evolutionary path of the Spiders from forest hunters to city builders. Sci-Fi at its grandest and most expansive, Children of Time is great for fans of Tchaikovsky’s other work as well as readers of To Sleep In a Sea of Stars, Generation Ship, and The Expanse series.