Official series
Official series · Children of Time
Evolution Beyond Humanity
Across engineered species, failed colonies, alien cognition, and contested memories, humanity repeatedly discovers that intelligence has inherited the cosmos in forms it did not plan and cannot safely dismiss.
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01Volume 1
Novel guide
Children of Time
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
The last human ark reaches a terraformed refuge and discovers that another civilization has inherited it across thousands of years.
02Volume 2
Novel guide
Children of Ruin
Children of Ruin
Adrian Tchaikovsky
A human-spider expedition follows an old signal to two engineered worlds where uplifted octopuses and an alien organism make contact inseparable from infection.
03Volume 3
Novel guide
Children of Memory
Children of Memory
Adrian Tchaikovsky
A child remembers incompatible histories of a failing colony while hidden visitors discover that the settlement may be a mind rehearsing lives that never happened.
04Volume 4
Novel guide
Children of Strife
Children of Strife
Adrian Tchaikovsky
A traumatized researcher and a mantis-shrimp captain descend to a living world where uploaded terraformers have spent millennia fighting through evolution itself.
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