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Children of Memory (Children of Time, 3) Paperback – January 31, 2023

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The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.

Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive, eking out a hardy existence. Yet life is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost.

Then strangers appear. They possess unparalleled knowledge and thrilling technology – and they've arrived from another world to help humanity’s colonies. But not all is as it seems, and the price of the strangers' help may be the colony itself.

Children of Memory by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky is a far-reaching space opera spanning generations, species and galaxies.

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"Intensely detailed and handily researched, Tchaikovsky's saga creates a deeply immersive narrative."―Booklist, on Children of Ruin

"A novel of sublime plot twists and spectacular set pieces, 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. A hugely satisfying sequel." ―Stephen Baxter, on Children of Ruin

"Magnificent. This is the big stuff―the really big stuff. Rich in wisdom and Humanity (note the 'H'), with a Stapledonian sweep and grandeur. Books like this are why we read science-fiction."―Ian McDonald, on Children of Ruin

"Children of Ruin is wonderful―big, thinky SF that feels classic without being mired in the past, absolutely crammed with fun ideas. Anyone who likes sweeping, evolutionary-scale stories will love this."―Django Wexler, on Children of Ruin

"Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human."―Patrick Ness, on Children of Time

"Brilliant science fiction and far out world building."―James McAvoy on Children of Time

"A refreshingly new take on post-dystopia civilizations, with the smartest evolutionary worldbuilding you'll ever read."―Peter F Hamilton on Children of Time

About the Author

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

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Orbit (January 31, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 512 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316466409
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316466400
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.25 inches

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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. Catch up with Adrian at www.shadowsoftheapt.com for further information about both himself and the insect-kinden, together with bonus material including short stories and artwork. Author Website: http://shadowsoftheapt.com/

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Lyndi

Love this series!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 1, 2023

Spaceship Enkidu escaped a falling and poisoned Earth generations ago with its human cargo captained by Heorest Holt. Now their ship is falling apart and Captain Holt is desperate to find a new Eden for the last of Earth's population. A partially terraformed planet they name Imir is his only hope for saving the surviving cargo. Now Liff, Holt's grandaughter, at just 26 (13 by earth years) is hearing whispers from the colonists about the strangers in town not being fun a neighboring fan like they claim. One of them can fix anything even though their technology had been failing for years and all technical knowledge had been lost long ago. And Liff's teacher has radical new ideas about harvesting and the life forms on the planet. But when they shun these advanced beings it could affect the survival of the colony itself.
I like that the uplifted beings from the previous books come back to try and help the human colony. This book was a refreshing change from the first two books, although I've loved them all so far. The details of an unknown evolving species in the first books sometimes had my head spinning, so reading about humans in this book was quite different.
I was thrilled to receive an advance reader copy of this book through Orbit Books and Netgalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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MMG

Unnecessarily verbose…

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 6, 2022

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I like to compare books to food…
Detective/Police Procedurals are like Fish and chips, you know what you’re going to get and it’s ultimately satisfying.
Comedies are McDonald’s, fun at the time but not that memorable.
1984 is a Sunday Roast, A classic that everyone should try.

Children of Memory is so much more than just a meal, it’s a full-on menu of overly complicated, Michelin stared, fine dining. With amuse-bouche between every course, foams, reductions and tweels.
When all you really want is Steak and Chips Sci-fi.

It rambles and rambles on, never quite getting to the point, all the while Adrian is dazzling and confusing us with more synonyms than Roget’s Thesaurus.
I really enjoyed Children of Time and Children of Ruin, I’m afraid I didn’t enjoy Children of Memory anywhere near as much.

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S. Naomi Scott

Another excellent book from Tchaikovsky

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 8, 2022

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Okay, anybody who’s been following me for a while will know that I count Adrian Tchaikovsky as one of my all-time favourite authors. I’ve only read a small portion of his oeuvre, but what I have read has been pretty consistently excellent, and rarely disappoints. This book is in no way an exception to that trend.

My first encounter with Tchaikovsky’s work was Dogs of War back in 2018, and to say it blew me away is putting it mildly. Shortly afterwards I finally gave in to peer pressure and cracked open my copy of Children of Time and once again, my mind was blown. This book, Children of Memory is the third in the Children of Time trilogy, and Tchaikovsky is still leaving me speechless, still blowing my mind with his writing.

This time around, the story centres on a failing colony of humans, though as the story unfolds, it quickly becomes apparent that nothing is as it seems on the world Imir.

I think the best way to describe the narrative in this book is as a snow-globe. You can see the scenery inside the globe, but in almost every other chapter Tchaikovsky picks up the globe and gives it a good shake, completely changing the view, and re-writing everything we think we know about what’s going on. Right up to the last maybe forty or fifty pages, he keeps you guessing, keeps pulling away one curtain after another, until the final reveal leaves you breathless and awestruck.

I want to say this might be his best work to date, or at the very least the best I’ve read so far. It left me with the same sense of amazement I got from Children of Time, and took me on a similar emotional roller-coaster to Dogs of War. It’s definitely my number one book of 2023, and I will never grow tired of recommending this entire trilogy to people.

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We're going on an adventure ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 11, 2022

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With matters amongst the Humans, Spiders, Octopodes and Slime Mould now resolved the Universe is their oyster and it's time to go on an adventure and find out how some of the other human terraforming and ark ship projects turned out.

On the planet Rourke we discover the human settlers all dead and the planet in the stewardship of smart Ravens. Not quite as enigmatic as the octopodes, but probably more entertaining, they introduce the main theme of this work. What is sentience.

The Ravens claim not to be sentient, they also claim that after careful analysis no other creature can make the claim to sentience either.

With two crows now aboard the crew, containing a representative of every species encountered so far and the ubiquitous Kern we continue the adventure to discover the fate of another ark ship and its landfall at a partially terraformed planet.

So far so space adventure, but that's about to change.

The survey team enter a strange realm where time and causality appear broken, or glitchy. A small rural town surrounded by a dark, dripping, winter forest, mountains and a cave where a witch is living.

We have entered Holdstock territory. Liff, a young girl tried to make sense of events through her book of fairy stories. Can she trick the witch into undoing the curse and releasing her grandfather ?

This is a really strong ending to the series, there's obviously a lot more ark ships out there, what did they did discover ? And a wider universe full of aliens and wonders yet to be discovered ?

Can Adrian explore this universe with his current cast of characters ? I would dearly like to hear more from the crows but I don't know, everyone seems to have reached a plateau of technological mastery it's hard to see what could challenge them in the end.

And that is the only problem with this book, even though the events are very puzzling you never get the impression anything is going on outside of the capability of the survey team to ultimately sort out.

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Mixed feelings for a great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 2, 2022

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As a successor to children of time and children of ruin it's an excellent book in the series. But as the final book there's certainly a sense of loss for the world and the collection of Humans and their little adventure, barring spinoffs or continuations. I suppose at the scale of these books there can never be a proper ending in terms of finality, there's more to tell until there can be no more anything.

I was floored at how well the book presented philosophy of mind towards the end, having studied philosophy myself academically for a time I think the example broached by the corvids is the best summation of eliminative materialism put to word.

My biggest gripe with the trilogy as a whole is probably how much of the books feel like empty space bridging the diamonds of speculative biology, psychology and philosophy and this book is not an exception - I found myself speed reading chapters at a time to get to the parts I was invested in.

It's very much worth reading but as a final book in a trilogy it leaves the whole feeling lacking to me, like the universe presented would be better told as a large anthology of shorter stories

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Frank Westworth

Curiously disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 23, 2022

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I thought the first book in the series was excellent, original, very well written and decently gripping. So much so that as soon as I'd finished it I bought the second book and read that straight away. Less original, perhaps, and certainly more predictable -- but that's a feature of serials, usually. Anyway, I enjoyed it sufficiently to buy and read this, the third in the series. But I didn't actually enjoy reading it very much. Why? Because of the seemingly endless repetition, the same debate over and again. By the time the reveals appeared I'd been waiting for them, drumming my fingernails tiredly (they're not clever nor surprising, sadly) and even when approached and discussed over and again again by sundry combinations of characters, they did not improve.
A great shame, because Adrian T is a fine and often compelling author. And I paid £9.99 for it, which is a leap of faith...

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