Reddit reviews Children of Time

If anyone wants to read a (really good) SciFi novel with Portias (and their uplifted descendants) as some of the main characters I can recommend "Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

I recommend this book - Children of Time

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1447273303/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_w1vrzbVRMW007

Imagine how far humanity could fuck up...

give this a read then

Children of time-Adrian Tchaikovsky
A sci-fi book by a fantasy author that is a fantastic blend of both.
Blurb from Amazon

Winner of the 30th anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel

WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life.

But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Time-Adrian-Tchaikovsky/dp/1447273303/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475011069&sr=8-1&keywords=children+of+time

One of my favorite books like this is children of Time. Here it is

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Eu curto sci-fi, especialmente na tematica de primero contato. Recentemente eu li Children of Time. Um livro relativamente longo, umas 600 páginas, e muito legal.

O autor bota os humanos como os aliens ameaçando invadir um outro mundo. Os humanos no futuro são o que restaram de toda a humanidade pós-guerra. Com o planeta terra acabado, eles não tem escolha senão migrar no espaço catando os restos que sobraram da antiga civilização antes da guerra, visitando suas ex-colônias abandonadas, até encontrarem um planeta habitável. Esse planeta é o resultado de um antigo projeto de terraformação, porém ele já está habitado por vidas inteligêntes aracnídeas que evoluiram lá. O livro tem romance, ação, aventura e sci-fi. Ele mostra o drama tanto dos humanos que vivem na nave quanto as aranhas no planeta. O autor faz um bom trabalho construíndo todo o background histórico das aranhas, é muito legal ler a "história da civilização aracnídea", que espelha a história da própria humanidade. Domínio da agricultura, surgimento das cidades, impérios, peste negra, the enlightenment e evolução das ciências.

Children of Time

Do Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

https://www.amazon.com/Children-Time-Adrian-Tchaikovsky/dp/1447273303

Someone already recommended the Three Body Problem, so I'll go ahead and throw in Children of Time. Half of it takes place in space and the other half takes place on a terraformed planet. The space chapters are weaker than the planet chapters (especially at the beginning, it does get off to kind of a rocky start writing-wise), but over the course of the book it just gets better and better. I don't want to spoil it by explaining what makes it so good, other than it's the only book that has ever made me cry over a dead spider.