Children of Strife

A new entry in the wildly successful Children of Time series from award-winning master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky.

After Earth fell, ark ships hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in Earth’s forgotten past. A ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a spectacularly punchy mantis shrimp captain is about to rediscover one such world, and an ark.

Then human crewmate Alis wakes to discover that she, her captain and the ship’s intelligence are the only ones left on their ship.

But what happened to those who left to explore the ark ... and the world below?

Children of Strife is the extraordinary next volume set in the Children of Time universe, featuring epic adventure, first contact and the nature of intelligence among the stars.

Fantastic expansion of this amazing universe!

I always love the narrator of this series, and the CoT universe is One of my absolute favorites. This installation of the series was almost a throwback to the first, in tone and pacing, so I'm a massive fan of how the series has been orchestrated so far (for example, how this planet has been introduced.) This book is just very good, sincerely.

Entirely enjoyable listen

The narration was top-notch, and I thoroughly enjoyed the humor and world building. Tchaikovsky does and fantastic job of shifting the perspective into the myriad of human and non-human characters.

Cato!!!!!!

This thrilling space opera blends imaginative science with adventure, delivering a new vivid world, complex characters, and thought-provoking ideas that keep readers engaged from beginning to end.

Lots of Time Jumps (3 different ages)

This 4th installment is true to the series, better than the 3rd book, which was mostly a "hallucination" anyway. The story is a bit confusing, but by hour 10 it all makes sense. I love stories about impossible Ark Ships. The Dark Beyond the Stars is a very similar type of novel.

Novel

I loved it. Synthesized so much from the previous trilogy into pleasantly surprising newness. Couldn’t believe my luck when I found out there was a fourth and didn’t want it to end when I got it.

Did not disappoint.