Children of Time: Winner of the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award [Lingua inglese]: Adrian Tchaikovsky - Brossura

Tchaikovsky, Adrian

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ISBN 10: 1447273303 ISBN 13: 9781447273301

Casa editrice: Pan, 2016

Riassunto

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age—a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?

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Brilliant science fiction and far out world building (James McAvoy)

Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human (Patrick Ness)

A refreshingly new take on post-dystopia civilizations, with the smartest evolutionary worldbuilding you'll ever read (Peter F Hamilton)

This is superior stuff, tackling big themes - gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness - with brio (Financial Times)

Descrizione del libro:

A race for survival among the stars . . . Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers?

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• Editore: Pan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1447273303
• ISBN 13: 9781447273301
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 599