Children of Time — Reading Order
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
A terraforming experiment goes wrong, uplifting spiders instead of apes, creating a civilization that must eventually face humanity's last survivors.
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2015
An uplifted spider civilization evolves on a terraformed world while the last humans search for a new home.
Children of Ruin
Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2019
Humans and spiders discover another uplifted species — octopuses — on a world infected with a terrifying alien organism.
Children of Memory
Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2022
A human colony ship reaches a marginal world where nothing is what it seems — not even the colonists themselves.
Children of Time: Children of Time Book 1
Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2015
WINNER OF THE 2016 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 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? WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH? The last remnants of the human race left a dying E
Children of Ruin: Children of Time Book 2
Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2019
It has been waiting through the ages. Now it's 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 th
Children of Time Hardcover Box Set
Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2026
This box set contains hardcover editions of the first three novels of Adrian Tchaikovsky's acclaimed Children of Time series, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award and one of the bestselling space opera series of the last decade. The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to fi
Children of Strife: Children of Time Book 4
Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2026
Long ago, towards the end of humanity’s first expansion into space, the vast majority of worlds were terraformed under the auspices of irascible genius Avrana Kern. But Kern had rivals, and a team of self-proclaimed innovators took one world from her remit and devoted themselves to reshaping it into
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