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Humanity is overrated.
Children of Time the tenth anniversary edition. This paperback edition features an exclusive short story ‘Bearable’.
Adrian Tchaikovksy’s critically acclaimed novel Children of Time, is the epic story of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Winner of the 30th anniversary 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?
‘Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human.’ – Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 672
Imprint: Tor UK
Publication date: 10/03/2026
Series: Children of Time v1
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 might disagree.
Tchaikovsky's ability to humanize but still make completely alien these otherworldly spiders is a feat to behold; even the most staunch 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, The 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.
