Adrian Tchaikovsky

Broschiertes Buch

Children of Ruin

Beschreibung

In this powerful narrative, we'll find a human outpost lying derelict in space, the scout ship that discovers it, and a planet best left unexplored . . . From the author of the hugely acclaimed Children of Time, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Autor

Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, and headed off to university in Reading to study psychology and zoology. For reasons unclear even to himself, he subsequently ended up in law. Adrian has since worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds and now writes full-time. He also lives in Leeds, with his wife and son. Adrian is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor. He has also trained in stage-fighting and keeps no exotic or dangerous pets of any kind ¿ possibly excepting his son. Adrian is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series and other novels, novellas and short stories. The Tiger and the Wolf won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel ¿ and Children of Time won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. This was in the award¿s 30th anniversary year.

Produktdetails

• Die Zeit-Saga / The Children of Time Novels 2
• Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 77718
• Trade Paperback
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 151mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 750g
• ISBN-13: 9781509865871
• ISBN-10: 150986587X
• Artikelnr.: 54276072

Rezensionen

All underpinned by great ideas. And it is crisply modern - but with the sensibility of classic science fiction. Asimov or Clarke might have written this Stephen Baxter