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Alien planet with an uplifted mantis shrimp warrior and human explorer facing a living beanstalk consuming a spacecraft beneath ghostly digital faces.

Book Review: Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #4)

Clay | August 14

When Terraforming Turns Scientists Into Insane Gods It’s finally time to review the fourth book in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series: Children[…]

A young girl and a mysterious teacher stand near a fractured colony on an alien world, with ravens overhead, a starship nearby, and a glowing buried machine beneath the landscape.

Review of Children of Memory (Children of Time #3) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Clay | May 8

The Most Star Trek Book in the Children of Time Series It is time for the third installment of the Children of Time[…]

Bioluminescent alien octopus and advanced spacecraft orbiting a vast blue ocean planet, inspired by the science fiction novel Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Children of Ruin (Children of Time #2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Clay | February 6

Exploring Alien Intelligence I loved Children of Time so much that picking up the sequel, Children of Ruin, was a no-brainer. This second[…]

A large, intelligent spider confronts a lone astronaut on an alien terrain with webbing in the air and a lush Earth-like planet and spacecraft looming above — capturing the central tension of Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky review

Clayton | July 4

A Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Masterpiece Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky was recommended by a coworker and sounded interesting, so I picked it up[…]

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