Children of ruin
(2019)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
SF/TCHAIKOVSKY,A

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Science Fiction SF/TCHAIKOVSKY,A Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Orbit, 2019
EDITION
First U.S. edition
DESCRIPTION

597 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780316452533, 031645253X :, 031645253X, 9780316452533
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Extras include an excerpts from Red moon by Kim Stanley Robinson and Roswater by Tade Thomspson

Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time. Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, hoping to find cousins from old Earth. But those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better left undisturbed. And it's been waiting for them