Children of Memory

Name: Children of Memory
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
ISBN: 9781668622193

Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky

Narrator: Mel Hudson

Unabridged: 13 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 01/31/2023

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.

Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive, eking out a hardy existence. Yet life is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost.

Then strangers appear. They possess unparalleled knowledge and thrilling technology – and they've arrived from another world to help humanity’s colonies. But not all is as it seems, and the price of the strangers' help may be the colony itself.

Children of Memory by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky is a far-reaching space opera spanning generations, species and galaxies.

Author Bio

Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the ten-book Shadows of the Apt series, starting with Empire in Black and Gold. His other works include the novel Children of Time, which won the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the short story collection Feast and Famine, and the novellas The Bloody Deluge and Even in the Cannon's Mouth. He has been shortlisted for the David Gemmell Legend Award and the British Fantasy Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily on February 11, 2023

I'm torn. I LOVED the beginning but lost interest towards the end when things got (purposely) confusing. I'm not sure if this is the last book in the series as the ending leaves the story opened for more but I think I'm done.......more

Goodreads review by Dom on November 13, 2022

This series has been a bit hit and miss for me. Children of Time was a delight, I really enjoyed it in almost every aspect. Children of Ruin less so, but it was still okay – there were just a few bits that I wasn’t so much a fan of. Children of Memory, sadly continued and expanded upon that trend. Th......more

Goodreads review by Trish on November 25, 2022

Oh my (book-)gods! This is my favorite in the series (so far, I should add, since I'm hoping for more installments). After the arachnids, octopuses and slime mold we now get ... humans! *lol* Of course, we are on another planet where another colony ship arrived a long time ago and humans settled. Man......more

Goodreads review by Chantal on October 26, 2022

Tchaikovsky never fails to amaze and surprise. I adored 'Children of Time' and 'Children of Ruin'. And yet, 'Children of Memory' is very different. It doesn't follow the formula of [species] + Uplift virus + chronology of the resulting society's twists and turns. I was a tiny bit sad about this - but......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on November 25, 2022

This one offered up some pretty great SFnal surprises. From the start, I had some suspicions that this would be something like a culture-shock kind of novel in a poor human colony world meeting the long list of truly fascinating alien (ish) races that were serendipitously uplifted in the previous Ch......more