{"product_id":"9781035057788","title":"Children of Strife","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Tchaikovsky, Adrian \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 26\/03\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 704 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781035057788,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey thought they’d found refuge. But paradise became their prison.The Sunday Times bestselling science-fiction adventure from the master of the genre, Adrian Tchaikovsky. Centuries ago, a maverick terraforming team played God with a distant planet. Out of their vanity and spite, something terrible and unexpected arose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenerations later, tormented scientist Alis is among the crew of the research vessel that rediscovers this lost outpost. But Alis wakes from nightmares of her own making to an all-too-real catastrophe on board. The rest of the crew has vanished – leaving only Cato, the belligerent mantis-shrimp captain, and Kern, the ship’s AI.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSearching for their lost fellows, Alis and Cato must venture into the darkness of the planet below. What did those ancient terraformers unleash? And will 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* * *Praise for the series: ‘Children of Time has a fabulous sense of scale that only someone as talented as Adrian Tchaikovsky can pull off . . . Very much recommended’– Peter F. Hamilton‘Brilliant science fiction and far-out world building’– James McAvoy‘A joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human’– Patrick Ness'An exemplar of classic widescreen science fiction’– New ScientistChildren of Strife was a Sunday Times bestseller w\/c 30\/03\/2026.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57379306144117,"sku":"9781035057788","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781035057788.jpg?v=1784796005","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781035057788","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}