{"product_id":"children-of-strife-children-of-time-4","title":"Children of Strife (Children of Time, Book 4)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn ark waits above a planet that humans terraformed long ago and then forgot. Adrian Tchaikovsky's fourth Children of Time novel sends humans, spiders and a mantis shrimp captain to learn what was left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReadical Key Points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook four of the Children of Time series, following \u003cem\u003eChildren of Time\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eChildren of Ruin\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eChildren of Memory\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe series opener, \u003cem\u003eChildren of Time\u003c\/em\u003e, won the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpace opera about first contact and what counts as intelligence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover, 496 pages, Orbit, 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLong after Earth's collapse, arkships went looking for worlds that an older humanity had shaped for life and then lost track of. One ship, crewed by humans, spiders and a combative mantis shrimp in command, finds such a world with an ark waiting in orbit. Then Alis wakes to find only herself, the captain and the ship's AI still aboard. The rest of the crew went down to explore, and nobody has come back up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike the earlier books, this one gives its non-human characters the same weight as its human ones, and it pushes the setting to planetary scale. Readers of idea-driven space opera and of the first three novels will find the universe widened again. The series has never asked whether other minds exist. It asks what it takes to understand one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA native of Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire, Adrian Tchaikovsky studied psychology and zoology at the University of Reading. He is also the author of the Shadows of the Apt fantasy series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brand New and Readical Ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReadical™ is an independent bookstore and reading-products brand built around a simple idea: books matter most when what we learn leaves the page and enters our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eApply the Page. Get Readical™.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orbit","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48026663059605,"sku":"NEW-ING-0316598968","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0800\/5861\/3909\/files\/upload-1789784786133.jpg?v=1789784787","url":"https:\/\/readical.com\/products\/children-of-strife-children-of-time-4","provider":"Readical","version":"1.0","type":"link"}