Children of Time

Brilliant science fiction and far out world building. – James McAvoyChildren 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 seriesHas 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 EngineThis 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 columnistAll 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 RuinOne of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction – Christopher Paolini, author of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

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.