Children of Strife - BookWyrm.World

eBook

English language

Published by Orbit.

ISBN:: 978-0-316-58746-4

From the award-winning master of sci-fi Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Strife is the unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time, Children of Ruin and Children of Memory.

In this epic adventure, we visit a far-future after earth fell, where ark ships had hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in earth’s forgotten past. We follow a ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a spectacularly punchy mantis shrimp captain as they rediscover one such world, and an ark.

Then human crewmate Alis wakes to discover that she, her captain and the ship’s intelligence are the only ones left on their ship. But what happened to those who left to explore the ark . . . and the world below?

Children of Strife is the extraordinary next volume set in the Children of Time universe, featuring epic adventure, first contact and …

From the award-winning master of sci-fi Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Strife is the unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time, Children of Ruin and Children of Memory.

In this epic adventure, we visit a far-future after earth fell, where ark ships had hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in earth’s forgotten past. We follow a ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a spectacularly punchy mantis shrimp captain as they rediscover one such world, and an ark.

Then human crewmate Alis wakes to discover that she, her captain and the ship’s intelligence are the only ones left on their ship. But what happened to those who left to explore the ark . . . and the world below?

Children of Strife is the extraordinary next volume set in the Children of Time universe, featuring epic adventure, first contact and the nature of intelligence among the stars.

3 editions

Jensi 🏴🚩 • he/him reviewed Children of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #4)

A bit weaker, but still a strong instance of the series

5 stars

While keeping this review spoiler-free, I want to tease: We get a new species for our society! Yay! The big downside of book 4 is a shortage of editing, or more so, shortening: Several text passages are redundant, especially in conveying cultural aspects. A smaller downside for me is that a certain character again gets important for the plot; but this character is definitive one of the best parts of the whole series though. So while I found this book to be the weakest of the currently 4 books, it is really relative to its sophisticated environment.

Andy P.

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April 7