Children of Strife

They thought they'd found refuge. But paradise became their prison.The Sunday Times bestselling science-fiction adventure from the master of the genre, Adrian Tchaikovsky. <BR><BR>Centuries ago, a maverick terraforming team played God with a distant planet. Out of their vanity and spite, something terrible and unexpected arose.<BR><BR>Generations later, tormented scientist Alis is among the crew of the research vessel that rediscovers this lost outpost. But Alis wakes from nightmares of her own making to an all-too-real catastrophe on board. The rest of the crew has vanished - leaving only Cato, the belligerent mantis-shrimp captain, and Kern, the ship's AI.<BR><BR>Searching for their lost fellows, Alis and Cato must venture into the darkness of the planet below. What did those ancient terraformers unleash? And will their last surviving crewmate become a greater threat than the world itself?<BR><BR>The journey that began with Children of Time reaches a new, terrifying frontier in Children of Strife, featuring epic adventure, first contact and the nature of intelligence among the stars.<BR><BR>* * *<BR><BR>Praise for the series: <BR><BR>'Children of Time has a fabulous sense of scale that only someone as talented as Adrian Tchaikovsky can pull off . . . Very much recommended'<BR>- Peter F. Hamilton<BR><BR>'Brilliant science fiction and far-out world building'<BR>- James McAvoy<BR><BR>'A joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human'<BR>- Patrick Ness<BR><BR>'An exemplar of classic widescreen science fiction'<BR>- New Scientist<BR><BR><BR>Children of Strife was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 30/03/2026.<BR>