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Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Start date: April 1, 2025

Finish date: April 30, 2025

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Mar 29, 2019 Jen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: own-audible, own-kindle, science-fiction, series, scifi-fav

So I hate spiders. But what I do love is reading about alien life forms. That is a favorite thing. There are uplifted (intelligent) spiders in Children of Time, and they are honestly the best story line of the book.

Children of Time also follows a dual timeline of a ship crewed by the last humans.

I originally gave this book 3 stars when I read it back in 2019, but I can't remember why my rating wasn't higher. It has remained with me and I've been wanting to reread it ever since. As per usual when ...more

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Nov 15, 2019 Steve rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, apocalypse-soon, gender

There are no aliens that her people ever met or heard from. Or, if there were, their signals were overlooked, passed by: alien in a way that meant no human could see them and recognize them as evidence of life from elsewhere.
So observes Avrana Kern about the life-spreading experiment that forms one of the two main threads of most unusual Children of Time
You might say, this may have been the author's dilemma as well. We have so many stories about humanity's encounter with aliens and, after many d ...more

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Sep 02, 2021 Natalie rated it really liked it

Shelves: science-fiction

Children of Time follows two groups throughout the novel: a group of humans who have abandoned earth in search of a better planet with Holsten being the main character, and a group of giant spiders who inhabit a green planet that the humans want to settle on.
The planet that the group of humans aboard the Gilgamesh find was designed by Doctor Kern. An AI, which they at first mistake for the Doctor herself, repeats to the humans to stay away from the planet. Doctor Kern doesn't want her experiment ...more

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