Children of Ruin

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My most anticipated book of the year’ – Peter F. Hamilton, Britain’s no.1 science fiction writerChildren of Ruin follows Adrian Tchaikovsky’s extraordinary Children of Time, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award. It is set in the same universe, with new characters and a thrilling narrative.It has been waiting through the ages. Now it’s time . . .Thousands of years ago, Earthâ 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 humanityâ great empire fell, and the programâ decisions were lost to time.Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, hoping to find cousins from old Earth.But those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better left undisturbed.And itâ been waiting for them.’Books like this are why we read science fiction’ – Ian McDonald, author of the Luna seriesAll underpinned by great ideas. And it is crisply modern – but with the sensibility of classic science fiction’Stephen Baxter, author of the Long Earth series (with Terry Pratchett)

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