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Title: CHILDREN OF TIME
WINNER OF THE 2016 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Format: Electronic book text

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ISBN 10: 1447273311
ISBN 13: 9781447273318
Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
Pub. date: 4 June, 2015
Description: 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 it's dangers?
Synopsis: 'Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human.' - Patrick NessWinner of the 30th anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best NovelAdrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed, stand-alone 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 for human life.But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?
Reader Age: From 18 years
Publication: UK
Imprint: Pan Books
Prizes: Winner of The Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016
Returns: Non-returnable
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