Children of Time is a pleasure from start to finish. “Entertaining, clever, surprising, and unexpectedly human.” - Patrick Ness. Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel on its 30th anniversary, Adrian Tchaikovsky's critically acclaimed standalone work is the epic tale of humanity's struggle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of humanity left a dying Earth, desperately searching for a new home among the stars. In the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world that has been terraformed and prepared for human life. But in this new Eden, not everything is as it seems. In the long years since the abandonment of the planet, the work of its architects has borne catastrophic fruit. The planet does not wait for them, pristine and uninhabited. New masters have transformed it from a refuge into the worst of humanity.