Children of Strife: An incredible far-future adventure set within the Children of Time series universe (The Children of Time Novels Book 4) (English Edition)

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VAI SU AMAZON

They thought they’d found refuge. But this paradise became their prison.

Centuries ago, a maverick terraforming team played God with a distant planet. Out of their vanity and spite, something terrible and unexpected arose.
Generations later, tormented scientist Alis is among the crew of the research vessel that rediscovers this lost outpost. But Alis wakes from nightmares of her own making to an all-too-real catastrophe on board. The rest of the crew has vanished – leaving only Cato, the belligerent mantis-shrimp captain, and Kern, the ship’s AI.
Searching for their lost fellows, Alis and Cato must venture into the darkness of the planet below. What did those ancient terraformers unleash? And will their last surviving crewmate become a greater threat than the world itself?
The journey that began with Children of Time reaches a new, terrifying frontier in Children of Strife, from the award-winning master of sci-fi Adrian Tchaikovsky, featuring epic adventure, first contact and the nature of intelligence among the stars.
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Praise for the series:
‘Children of Time has a fabulous sense of scale that only someone as talented as Adrian Tchaikovsky can pull off . . . Very much recommended’
– Peter F. Hamilton
‘Brilliant science fiction and far-out world building’
– James McAvoy
‘A joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human’
– Patrick Ness
‘An exemplar of classic widescreen science fiction’
– New Scientist

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0F5WK4M24
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tor
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 26 Mar. 2026
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2.9 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 684 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1035057818
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Book 4 of 4 ‏ : ‎ Children of Time
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Best Sellers Rank: 79,798 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) 53 in Space Exploration 100 in First Contact 129 in Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
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