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Children of Time: Winner of the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award (Engelska) Inbunden – 4 Juni 2015

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Who will inherit this new earth? 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 born 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. Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?

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Utgivare : Macmillan (4 Juni 2015)
Språk : Engelska
Inbunden : 480 sidor
ISBN-10 : 1447273281
ISBN-13 : 978-1447273288
Läsarålder : 18 år och uppåt

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Adrian Tchaikovsky studied psychology and zoology. He subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive. He is the author of the Shadows of the Apt series, which includes Blood of the Mantis, Dragonfly Falling, Salute the Dark, and The Scarab Path.

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Julian D St M Porter

A tour de force: what is human?

Granskad i Storbritannien den 25 augusti 2018

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This is a stunning tour de force, and certainly deserved the Clarke Award for best new SF novel. Without spoilers, the novel alternates two parallel, and linked, histories over (very) long periods of time.

First the rise of a new (and shocking, to some) intelligent species, derived from some of the lowliest of Earth's species, as a result of an accident with a carefully seeded terraformed planet, which is somehow set ticking without its expected load of proto-humans. This new sentient rises with amazing speed and soon reaches, and surpasses most human achievements, existing, however, within a radically different civilisation, deriving from its very non-human biology.

Second the devolution of humanity itself, battered by populism, intolerance, nuclear disaster and climate change, turned into a pirate fragment, wandering the universe, looking for a planet to call its own, regardless of the opinion of said planet's existing inhabitants, if anything. The sole driver of the human characters in the book is survival, with no concept of ethics in mitigation; humanity has fallen lower than the primitive ancestors of the other civilisation, which can be seen as humanity's child.

The genius lies in the fact that we re led to expect that the non-humans will be true to their savage ancestors, and, by our natural sympathy with the human characters, to expect that, when the inevitable collision comes, the non-humans will behave just as the humans expect them to, and intend to behave themselves, that is to say, to commit genocide. We believe that this may actually be happening, with only a few disquieting hints. And then the true nature of the non-human intention is revealed, and we see that they are now the true humans, able to empathise with, and try to help, even utterly alien monsters intent on their destruction.

In and among we get some fascinating sidelines on computing, the nature of artificial intelligence, intolerance, chauvinism, and even what it is like to be a God. However, the core of this book, which makes it so unique, is the powerful moral fable, in which humanity is saved from self-negation by the descendants of animals it once feared, who are now the true humans.

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Kenneth R.

Deeply Weirdly Unsatisfying

Granskad i Storbritannien den 22 januari 2019

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The author's introductory acknowledgements called the book "a deeply weirdly personal project". That's the trouble. As an avid sci-fi fan, I'm sure it wasn't worth prescisely 600 pages of sharing.

I cannot write with his verbal clarity so won't knock the presentation of this cereberal, human journey into the alternative evolution of ant- and spider-world thousands of years on. But it is a let-down in too many words.

I liked the beginning, grew frustrated with the middle because of the eternal, superficial, almost disinerested refusal of character development over hundreds of years , and the book's failure to generate the necessary emotional atmosphere around events. I dismissed the end as so totally implausible as to mock the genre.
Human cowboys with guns in a tin ship trying to save mankind from insects attacking them in silk shirts in outer space.

The hype and bestowed award are preposterous.

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C. S. Barlow

What It Lacks In Style It Makes Up For In Info-Dump

Granskad i Storbritannien den 20 juli 2019

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The story here was an interesting one, at least in synopsis: a far future setting after the decline of mankind, with its last remnants desperately seeking a new home. They find one, but it's defended by it's 'god' and already occupied by super-evolved spiders...

Tchaikovsky's treatment of all this, however, is at best vanilla, and at worst simply banal. Many passages are little more than info-dumps interspersed with a dash of characterisation and plot. The depiction of the spider world is obviously well researched and quite inventive in places, but is very anthropomorphised with an too-obvious authorial voice that detracts considerably from any sense of the alien (even earthly arachnid 'alien'). Surprises and twists are few and hardly major or shocking.

Two hundred pages less, with tighter plotting, and lots more style, Children of Time could have become a much more exciting prospect. As it stands, it is not.

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Barry Mulvany

Exceptional idea, brilliantly executed

Granskad i Storbritannien den 20 augusti 2020

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Wow that was an exceptional book.

Set in the far future and spanning several thousand years, this is one epic science fiction story. After earth is left pretty much useless, a ship sets out with one of the last remnants of humanity to find a new home to live. They find a new planet that seems perfect, already terraformed but also has native life that has been bioengineered to make it more intelligent. As you might imagine there are consequences as each species learns of the other.

It is going to be hard to talk about this book without giving too much away but man I was blown away about the concepts on offer here. The author basically extrapolated how civilisation and technology might develop with a known species but one that is very different than our own. The book is split into several parts so we see how the planet is developing during many different periods of its evolution. You would think it would be hard to empathise with what is basically an alien species, one the author tries really hard to keep 'other', but you do and they are probably my favourite parts of it.

Not to say that the human part of the story is bad, it is still brilliant and really amazing and due to cryogenics we do mostly keep with the same characters. Obviously they change too and the time covered is vast and they struggle to come to terms with it as well. It does not shine a great light on our species, no matter our brilliance and scientific knowledge we don't seem to really evolve as much as I think we should. I sometimes think this is why I'm not always such a fan of SF compared to fantasy, our future is nearly always displayed as quite bleak and the worst part is that I mostly agree with it.

The worldbuilding on offer here is up there with the best I've read. The science parts seem believable (to a certain degree) but don't take away from the pace of the book. In addition the characters are great and sympathetic, both human and alien. The author has really managed to put it all together in this one and it was a joy to read. Thoroughly recommend it.

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A bug’s life

Granskad i Storbritannien den 23 november 2017

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4/5 • Kudos to Tchaikovsky for his world building, as this aspect of CHILDREN OF TIME is its main strength. He has clearly spent a great deal of time researching and considering the development of the arachnids on the Green Planet and, possible problems with the rules of scaling aside, has created a compelling narrative around their evolutionary journey. The journey taken by the human contingent is less convincing and there are times when his rigid structure (alternate chapters for spiders and humans) leads to some thinning of the human narrative. Nevertheless, this is a strong and enjoyable story that only occasionally falters. The weakest aspect of the novel is Tchaikovsky’s prose, which I found lacklustre at its best and turgid at its worst. His grammar is also somewhat suspect at times. But the sheer exuberance of the spiders’ ascent of the evolutionary ladder just about makes up for the forgettable writing style and allows for a 4-star rating.

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