Why read Children of Memory?

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From the award-winning master of sci-fi Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory is the unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time and Children of Ruin.

When Earth failed, it sent out arkships to establish new outposts. So the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its…

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2 authors picked Children of Memory as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Casey Dorman

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The whole Children of Time series is one that stretches the boundaries of science fiction by featuring unusual creatures, such as spiders, ants, octopuses, parasites and birds, as well as an artificial mind, in starring roles. The humans, and their ethnocentric need to not just terraform planets they plan to colonize, but to try to hasten the development of earth-like species on those planets, have created super creatures, with human-level intelligence, but who use their own unique ways of seeing the world and thinking. Children of Memory, being the last book in the series, is not just a continuation of…

From Casey's 3 favorite reads in 2024.

Melissa Washburn

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As someone who is a bit of a naturalist/nature nerd, this book (the third in a series) explored some absolutely fascinating imaginations of evolution in non-human species.

The series looks at a group of characters and their descendants over thousands of years, after mankind has abandoned Earth and seeded and terraformed, then abandoned, different extraterrestrial planets.

What would consciousness and related society and technology look like for spiders? Octopuses? Corvids? And what would happen if humans then encountered these evolved species again after that evolution?

From Melissa's 3 favorite reads in 2023.