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

· The Children of Time Novels Book 3 · Pan Macmillan
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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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121 reviews
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April 18, 2024
Well... if you are into existential philosophy, than this is the book for you. in terms of readability it marks the low point of the trilogy. All three start from a rather artificially constructed situation. But where Books 1 and 2 took it fairly consistently forward from there, this relies on a convoluted narrative to do what exactly? Some/most of the endless inconsistencies that just keep piling up throughout the book get resolved in the end (in a way). Overall, an at times gruelling slog through in hindsight totally superfluous inner monologues, just get to something worth reading on the very last page - and then it ends :-/
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Gary Rostock
January 29, 2026
I think Adrian T has bought into the idea of write as many words as you can to say the same thing over and over and over again, as in 19th century Russian lit. This would be a great novella, but not a mammoth novel. I was wishing for it to end, which it eventually did, and to no great effect. But have to say, the guy can write, I just wish... not so much.
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Martin Kilcoyne
December 7, 2022
I'm a big fan of this author but this was a major disappointment for me. I loved the first 2 books in the series but I thought the pacing here was way off. Long passages of internal monologue which often felt repetitive. Hard to believe it's written by the same author.
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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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