Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Book Review)

Going by his Shadows of the Apt novels, Adrian Tchaikovsky is one of my favourite SFF writers by far. Empire In Black and Gold and Dragonfly Falling are very enjoyable novels that focus on something very different for a fantasy series, sentient insect-human cross-breeds as a dominant species and their wars against each other. Having gotten that foothold into Adrian’s work, and getting back on the reading train a few months ago, I was excited to try a different track with his Children of Time novel, which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award last year. Much acclaim has been showered on the author and novel alike, and now having read it for myself, I am very much inclined to agree. As with his Shadows of the Apt series, Children of Time tackles a very different sort of space opera that does indeed hearken back to some of Arthur C. Clarke’s best work and presents it as something truly wondrous and intriguing.