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Children of Time

Contributors

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Oct 14, 2025
Page Count
640 pages
Publisher
Orbit
ISBN-13
9780316575690

Prices

  • Sale Price $56.00
  • Regular Price $70.00
  • Discount (20% off)

Format

Format:

  1. Hardcover (Special Edition) $56.00
  2. ebook (Digital original) $9.99
  3. Trade Paperback $19.99

This Gold Edition will ship on September 9, 2025, and is available exclusively here. Preorder today to get a 20% discount and secure your signed copy of Children of Time.
 
Children of Time is the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning tale of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet. This gorgeous, deluxe collector’s edition of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s science fiction modern classic features: 

  • An exclusive box illustrated by Donato Giancola
  • A signed hardcover copy of Children of Time
  • Gilded blue edges
  • Four color endpaper art
  • A brand-new foil-stamped fabric cover
  • A ribbon bookmark
  • Bonus scenes from Children of Time 

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?