Children of Memory: Action-packed alien adventure from the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award

· The Children of Time Novels Book 3 · Tor · 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

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 a...

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9 reviews
Nuada Steel
March 30, 2024
I'm sorry to say, but this book was a major disappointment! The story has nothing to follow up the first good book of the series. There is no flow, no movement, no climax and frankly nothing besides a never ending circle of irritating stagnation - like a shattered mirror, which is remade just to be shattered over and over again, until one prefers for an ending, any ending honestly, just to be rid of it eventually!
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Aldo Bader
December 20, 2022
A somewhat disappointing follow up given the brilliance of the first two books. Not a terrible read, just not what I came for and definitely not the same quality of previous installments. Though stories that dabble with time are often confusing, I feel this book is particularly so and the resolution is not particularly well crafted or original. Perhaps a second read will give me better perspective, but I feel most of this book is just treading water until the not so epic conclusion. Although the book presents some interesting debates, we don't get the great stories of evolution and how civilizations uniquely develop form different species. Another species is presented, however they are just there for the ride with their evolution expositioned to us later on, while the focus of the book is rather uninteresting for the most part. Instead of a space opera, the whole thing felt like a mid season Stargate episode, and the story is genuinely very close to one or two episodes...
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FlyingFox429
December 7, 2022
Mostly confusing until the ending which is interesting but underwhelming based on how long it is. Kind of feels like filler for the next book.
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About the author

Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, has practised law and now writes full time. He's also studied stage-fighting, perpetrated amateur dramatics and has a keen interest in entomology and table-top games. Adrian is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series and other novels, novellas and short stories. Children of Time won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Children of Ruin and Shards of Earth both won the British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel. The Tiger and the Wolf won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel, while And Put Away Childish Things won the BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction.
Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, has practised law and now writes full time. He's also studied stage-fighting, perpetrated amateur dramatics and has a keen interest in entomology and table-top games. Adrian is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt ser...

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