Children of Time (Children of Time Series #1)

There are aliens, right here on Earth. Right now. Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, as H.G. Wells put it—though he was talking about life on Mars. Closer to home we have crows, who are happy to engage with friendly humans, and the less friendly (and altogether weirder) octopus. Strangest of all, and scariest to […]

What qualities must a book have to be considered science fiction? Genre categories can be helpful in guiding us toward works that we might like, or just are in the mood to read, but those definitions can be slippery, and many of the very best books defy conventions and upend expectations. Perhaps we’d be better […]

Though Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time, reads like a brilliant standalone hard sci-fi masterpiece, given the reception it received—the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and strong enough sales in the U.S. that a new publisher picked up the domestic rights—a follow-up seemed all but assured. That first millennia-spanning story of cryoships, human evolution, and weighing the […]

There are those who believe that life here [pregnant pause] began out there. Many of those same people understand that the Cylons were created by man; that they rebelled; that they evolved; that there are many copies; and that they have a plan. It’s a whole thing. That might have been the end. But in […]