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Children of Memory

Children of Time, Book 3

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Children of Memory

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 Fiction First Contact Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Exploration Space Opera Technology Thriller

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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I have to say I couldn't finish this book. I managed the first two but this was just so slow and stretched credulity so much that I gave up. The premise of the entire series is, of course, completely daft but that shouldn't necessarily matter. The reader just gets weary of the relentless use of the present tense and the realisation that you don't care about any of the characters.

A series that became tedious.

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Mel Gibson is a really good narrator. Story was decent, not as good as first book in the series.

Not as good as first book but still good

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not as good as the first two but still not bad, hopefully 4th is better

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this trilogy has been so much fun.
the exploration of what it is to Be a thinking entity.
Adrian Tchaikovsky has done so many good books but this is my favourite 3 part story so far

another good book

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Spoiler alert!!!!!!!
First I thought the story was confusing and jumping back and forth.
However at the end it turns out that we experience that an AI simulation argues that the consciousness of a girl in a simulation they have encountered, is just as real as they and flesh and blood people and aliens are.
Long story short, they rescue the girl.

What is consciousness?

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