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Children of Memory

Children of Time, Book 3

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Children of Memory

Written by: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Narrated by: Mel Hudson
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They dreamed of a new home. They woke to a nightmare.


A far-reaching space opera spanning generations, species and galaxies by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.

On Imir, Captain Holt founded a hopeful new colony on an empty world. But generations later, his descendants are struggling to survive. As harvests worsen and equipment fails, strangers appear in a town where everyone knows their neighbour. Now the community fears that it's being observed – that they’re not alone. And they'd be right.

Explorers from the stars have come in secret, to help. Confident of their superior technology, they begin to study their long-lost cousins from Earth. Yet the visitors aren't the only watchers. When the starfarers discover the scale of their mistake, it will be far too late to escape.

Children of Memory is the unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time and Children of Ruin. Continue the journey with Children of Strife.

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Praise for the series:

‘Brilliant science fiction and far-out world-building’
– James McAvoy

‘Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human’
– Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls

‘A fabulous sense of scale that only someone as talented as Adrian Tchaikovsky can pull off’
– Peter F. Hamilton, author of Exodus: The Archimedes Engine

Adventure First Contact Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Exploration Space Opera

Critic Reviews

One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction (Christopher Paolini, author of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars)
Brilliant science fiction and far-out world-building (James McAvoy on Children of Time)
Breathtaking scope and vision. Adrian Tchaikovsky is one of our finest writers (Gareth L. Powell, author of Embers of War, on Children of Ruin)
All underpinned by great ideas. And it is crisply modern - but with the sensibility of classic science fiction. Asimov or Clarke might have written this (Stephen Baxter, author of Time and Proxima, on Children of Ruin)
Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human. (Patrick Ness, author of A Monster Calls and the Chaos Walking series, on Children of Time)
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As a series, I love these books and Children of Memory was an interesting wrap-up. But as a standalone novel, this really doesn’t live up to his previous two works - Time and Ruin.

This book starts out strong, but the ending is very weak. And even for Tchaikovsky’s standards, this was just plain weird. In that, it did not make much sense. I felt like the author was trying too hard to create a spectacular and memorable send-off to this series. But he failed.

Is this book readable, though? Yes. And if you’ve been following this series, you will enjoy the fresh take on some of the older characters.

Overall, its worth a one-time read/listen. The narrator, as always, was spectacular.

Not as good as the previous two books

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Hard Sci Fi mixed in with mystery and intrigue.
Tchaikovsky was always brilliant in making us question what life out there in the universe should look and behave like. This books takes it to the next level, really made me sit and ponder the world around us.

Brilliant additional to a fantastic series

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Premise is similar to Children of Time but a very different story line. It sets in a suspense novel for the most part. Later it evolves into philosophical debate on what is sentience. Good listen overall.

Got me thinking

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