Children of Memory
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4.3 • 219 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive, eking out a hardy existence. Yet life is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost.
Then strangers appear. They possess unparalleled knowledge and thrilling technology – and they've arrived from another world to help humanity’s colonies. But not all is as it seems, and the price of the strangers' help may be the colony itself.
Children of Memory by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky is a far-reaching space opera spanning generations, species and galaxies.
Customer Reviews
Unexpectedly profound
I’m still thinking about Children of Memory, a few days afterwards. In its final chapters, the story goes wide on ideas he’d been planting through the whole series, about appreciating sentience, and seeing beyond one’s own species.
In each of the earlier books, we watched characters ultimately overcome their assumptions and prejudices, to accept and connect with other cultures quite different from their own. In the last pages of this book, in the guise of story, I was suddenly presented with an opportunity to make a similar leap myself — to reconsider what thinking is, and expand my own definition of culture.
Also, great Corvid dialogues.
Such a slog
Children of time and children of ruin are two of my favorite sci-fi books. I’ve been looking forward to this 3rd installment for so long, but it is very confusing, and nowhere near as engaging as the first two books. Im about a third of the way through, hopefully it will vastly improve.
Update: About 2/3 of the way through and I have absolutely no idea what is happening. At this point I’m finishing just to get it over with and move on.
Excellent
Well written, superb descriptions, artificial intelligence, messiahs, gods. Excellent.