Children of Ruin
- 592
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
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About the book
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 awoke something on Nod. Something better left undisturbed. And it has been waiting for them.
Reading order · Children of Time
Full order & progress →- Children of TimeStart here
8.58.5 / 10 - Children of RuinThis book
8.08.0 / 10 - Children of Memory
7.97.9 / 10 - Children of Strife
8.18.1 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 838 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 85% of the weight and the score stays at 8.0 — the Science fiction average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.1 | 15 | 2% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 823 | 98% |
Reader voices
The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).
“I wanted to read Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky because I read the first book, Children of Time, and the teaser at the end hooked me into wanting to continue the series. Many of the aspects I enjoyed from the previous novel were also…”
“Manages to make “We're going on an adventure” the most terrifying thing to hear. Take the spiders from the previous book, add octopuses, a planet full of strange aliens, and a dangerous swarm intelligence.”
Frequently asked
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It has 592 pages — longer than 79% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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