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Book 1
Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award
By Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adrian Tchaikovsky's Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. 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 f
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UK paperback
Paperback · Tor · 13 November 2015 · ISBN 9781035076192

UK ebook
Ebook · Pan · 13 November 2015

Book 2
By Adrian Tchaikovsky
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 the program's decisions were lost to time. Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio sign
Editions

UK paperback
Paperback · Pan · 20 February 2020 · ISBN 9781509865857

UK hardback
Hardback · Tor · 20 February 2020 · ISBN 9781509865833

UK ebook
Ebook · Tor · 20 February 2020

Book 3
By Adrian Tchaikovsky
Children of Memory follows Adrian Tchaikovsky's extraordinary Children of Time, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award, and Children of Ruin. It is set in the same universe, with new characters and a thrilling narrative. They dreamed of a new home They woke to a nightmare On Imir, Captain Holt founded a new colony on an empty world. In the process, he created hope and a new future for humanity. But generations later, h
Editions

UK paperback
Paperback · Pan · 27 July 2023 · ISBN 9781529087192

UK hardback
Hardback · Tor · 27 July 2023 · ISBN 9781529087178

UK ebook
Ebook · Tor · 27 July 2023

Book 4
By Adrian Tchaikovsky
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 a paradise in their own image, using new and unpredictable methods. Later, after the fall of their society and long gen
Editions

UK paperback
Paperback · Tor · 22 October 2026 · ISBN 9781035057801

UK hardback
Hardback · Tor · 22 October 2026 · ISBN 9781035057788

UK ebook
Ebook · Tor · 22 October 2026
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