Children of Strife

The fourth installment in the highly acclaimed Children of Time series by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner and sci-fi master Adrian Tchaikovsky.

They thought they'd found refuge. But paradise became a prison.

Centuries ago, a maverick terraforming team played God with a distant planet. Now, generations later, scientist Alis wakes to a nightmare around this same world. Her research vessel discovered this abandoned outpost, but her crew has vanished, leaving her stranded with only Cato, the belligerent mantis-shrimp captain, and Kern, the ship's AI.

To find their missing shipmates, Alis and Cato must descend into the wilderness of the planet below. But the ancient terraformers left something terrifying behind. What horrors did they unleash? And could their last surviving crewmate become a greater threat than the world itself?

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.