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Children of Memory
The Children of Time Novels (Related to this series)
- Author
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrator
- Mel Hudson
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 24 November 2022
- Run Time
- 13 hours 26 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Science fiction: space opera, Science fiction: aliens / UFOs, Science fiction: space exploration, Thriller / suspense fiction, Hard science fiction, Speculative fiction, Adventure / action fiction
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
A far-reaching space opera spanning generations, species and galaxies by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.
On Imir, Captain Holt founded a hopeful new colony on an empty world. But generations later, his descendants are struggling to survive. As harvests worsen and equipment fails, strangers appear in a town where everyone knows their neighbour. Now the community fears that it's being observed – that they’re not alone. And they'd be right.
Explorers from the stars have come in secret, to help. Confident of their superior technology, they begin to study their long-lost cousins from Earth. Yet the visitors aren't the only watchers. When the starfarers discover the scale of their mistake, it will be far too late to escape.
Children of Memory is the unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time and Children of Ruin. Continue the journey with Children of Strife.
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Praise for the series:
‘Brilliant science fiction and far-out world-building’
– James McAvoy
‘Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human’
– Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls
‘A fabulous sense of scale that only someone as talented as Adrian Tchaikovsky can pull off’
– Peter F. Hamilton, author of Exodus: The Archimedes Engine
Critics Review
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One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction
Christopher Paolini, author of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
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Brilliant science fiction and far-out world-building
James McAvoy on Children of Time
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Breathtaking scope and vision. Adrian Tchaikovsky is one of our finest writers
Gareth L. Powell, author of Embers of War, on Children of Ruin
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All underpinned by great ideas. And it is crisply modern - but with the sensibility of classic science fiction. Asimov or Clarke might have written this
Stephen Baxter, author of Time and Proxima, on Children of Ruin
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Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human.
Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls and the Chaos Walking series, on Children of Time
User Reviews
Book 4.0
Narration 5.0
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4.0 5.0
A complex, and complicated!, storyline. Worthy finish to the series though. At points I thought I might have skipped a chapter! But I hadn’t 🤔
SteveH 2025-03-22
Details
- Author
- Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrator
- Mel Hudson
- Duration
- 13 hours 26 minutes
- Release Date
- 24 November 2022
- ISBN
- 9781529087215
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Science fiction: space opera, Science fiction: aliens / UFOs, Science fiction: space exploration, Thriller / suspense fiction, Hard science fiction, Speculative fiction, Adventure / action fiction
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
They dreamed of a new home. They woke to a nightmare.A far-reaching space opera spanning generations, species and galaxies by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.On Imir, Captain Holt founded a hopeful new colony on an empty world. But generations later, his descendants are struggling to survive. As harvests worsen and equipment fails, strangers appear in a town where everyone knows their neighbour. Now the community fears that it's being observed – that they’re not alone. And they'd be right.Explorers from the stars have come in secret, to help. Confident of their superior technology, they begin to study their long-lost cousins from Earth. Yet the visitors aren't the only watchers. When the starfarers discover the scale of their mistake, it will be far too late to escape. Children of Memory is the unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time and Children of Ruin. Continue the journey with Children of Strife.* * * Praise for the series:‘Brilliant science fiction and far-out world-building’– James McAvoy‘Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human’– Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls‘A fabulous sense of scale that only someone as talented as Adrian Tchaikovsky can pull off’– Peter F. Hamilton, author of Exodus: The Archimedes Engine
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