Children of Time

Brilliant science fiction and far out world building. – James McAvoy
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
Has a fabulous sense of scale that only someone as talented as Adrian Tchaikovsky can pull off … Very much recommended. – Peter F. Hamilton, author of Salvation and Exodus: The Archimedes Engine
This is superior stuff, tackling big themes - gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness - with brio * Financial Times *
I cannot recommend it enough. It’s a helluva first contact story, and that’s only like its 5th most interesting feature! – Ezra Klein, New York Times columnist
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 Proxima, on Children of Ruin
One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction – Christopher Paolini, author of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
No one has an imagination like Adrian Tchaikovsky – Jim Al-Khalili, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific
I swear the man is some kind of genius – Peter Watts, author of Blindsight
Tchaikovsky is the break-out star of contemporary British SF * The Guardian *
A huge talent, writing at the peak of his powers * New Scientist *

Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire before heading off to Reading to study psychology and zoology. For reasons unclear even to himself he subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives. Married, he is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor, has trained in stage-fighting, and keeps no exotic or dangerous pets of any kind, possibly excepting his son.

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