‘Asimov or Clarke might have written this’ – Stephen Baxter, co-author of The Long Earth.

A human relay station is discovered abandoned in space – and a planet better left unexplored. Children of Ruin follows the exceptional Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and is set in the same world with new characters and an original narrative.

Thousands of years ago, Earth's program of artificial modification had achieved travel among the stars. On the world named Nod, scientists discovered alien life – but their mission was to replace it with Earth's memory. When humanity's great empire fell, the decisions of the program were lost in time.

Centuries later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragments of radio signals among the stars. They sent a research vessel, hoping to find relatives from old Earth. But the ancient modifiers awakened something on Nod. Something better left undisturbed. And it waited for them.

‘Books like this are the reason we read science fiction’ - Ian McDonald, author of the Luna series.

Pages: 576, Year of Publication: 0225, Dimensions: 13x13cm.