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Synopsis
This box set contains hardcover editions of the first three novels of Adrian Tchaikovsky's acclaimed Children of Time series, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award and one of the bestselling space opera series of the last decade. The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Who will inherit this new Earth? Children of Time Children of Time Children of Ruin Children of Memory
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Is Children of Time Hardcover Box Set appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 15 and up.
Hard science fiction exploring humanity's search for a new home and encounters with evolved alien intelligence. Contains moderate violence through species conflict and warfare, complex philosophical themes about consciousness and evolution.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, no sexual content, and mild language. Content notes include genocide, death, and extinction event (see the full list above).
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Who'll love this
Teens who love big-idea science fiction about humanity's future and first contact with truly alien minds will find this intellectually rewarding.