아서 C. 클라크 상 수상 10주년 기념판! 인류의 오만이 빚어낸 비극과 생존을 향한 거대한 여정이 시작됩니다.

멸망해가는 지구를 뒤로하고 최후의 인류가 찾아낸 '새로운 에덴'. 선조들이 테라포밍해둔 이 완벽한 행성은 인류의 마지막 희망이었습니다. 하지만 수천 년의 시간 동안 이곳은 주인이 없는 낙원이 아니었습니다. 인류가 상상조차 못한 기묘하고 거대한 지적 생명체가 이미 행성의 새로운 주인으로 진화해 있었기 때문입니다.

이제 두 문명은 종의 사활을 건 피할 수 없는 충돌 궤도에 오릅니다. 과연 이 새로운 지구를 물려받을 진정한 후계자는 누구일까요?

Humanity is overrated.

The tenth anniversary edition of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s critically acclaimed Children of Time – an epic story of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Winner of the 30th anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel.

Contains the short story ‘Bearable’ exclusive to this edition.

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 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.

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?

Continue the journey with Children of Ruin, Children of Memory and Children of Strife.

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Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky

‘Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human’ - Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls.

‘No one has an an imagination like Adrian Tchaikovsky’ – Jim Al-Khalili, presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific

‘Tchaikovsky is the break-out star of contemporary British SF’ – The Guardian