Children of Time: Winner of the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award (The Children of Time Novels, 1) - Hardcover

Tchaikovsky, Adrian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1447273281 ISBN 13: 9781447273288

Verlag: Tor, 2015

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Winner of the 30th anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed, stand-alone novel Children of Time, is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. 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?

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

The world now revealed was awe-inspiring, a vaulted cathedral of forest overshadowed by the interlocking boughs above, like a green sky held up by the pillars of tree trunks. The drone glided on through this vast and cavernous space, keeping ground and canopy equally distant.
The expressions of the Gilgamesh crew were hungry and bitter, staring at this forbidden birthright, an Eden not made for human touch.
'What's that ahead?' Lain asked.
'Detecting nothing. Just a visual glitch,' Karst replied, and then abruptly their viewpoint was swinging wildly, wheeling in mid-air with frustrated forward momentum.
Karst swore, fingers flying as he tried to send new instructions, but the drone seemed to be caught on something invisible - or near-invisible. Holsten could only see brief glints in the air as the drone's viewpoint spun and danced.
It happened very swiftly. One moment they were staring out into the clear space ahead that the drone was being inexplicably denied, and then a vast hand-like shadow eclipsed their view.

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• Verlag: Tor
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1447273281
• ISBN 13: 9781447273288
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 608