Reading order · 3 books · 2015 to 2022 · Set in invented worlds
Children of Time Books in Order
The Children of Time books follow the last remnants of humanity as they meet the species that a lost terraforming project has lifted to intelligence, from spiders to octopuses. Ambitious, award-winning science fiction.
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Series facts
- Books
- 3
- Published
- 2015 to 2022
- First book
- Children of Time
- Latest
- Children of Memory (2022)
- Setting
- Set in invented worlds
The reading order
Every Children of Time book in publication order. Choose a title for its cast and summary.
3 books · Set in invented worlds
- 1Children of Time2015With Holsten MasonThe last remnants of humanity flee a dying Earth for a planet terraformed long ago, where a scientist’s experiment has gone wrong.Buy on Amazon
- 2Children of Ruin2019Humans and spiders set out together to explore another terraformed world, where they find a very different kind of mind.Buy on Amazon
- 3Children of Memory2022The explorers reach a struggling human colony, where nothing is quite what it seems.Buy on Amazon
Do you need to read them in order?
Read Children of Time, Children of Ruin and Children of Memory in order.
Who appears in which book
The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.
| Book | Holsten Mason | Dr Avrana Kern | Portia | Disa Lain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Children of Time | LLead | MMajor | ·Minor | MMajor |
| 2 Children of Ruin | MMajor | ·Minor | ·Minor | |
| 3 Children of Memory | MMajor | ·Minor |
Characters in the Children of Time books
4 characters from Adrian Tchaikovsky’s chart, with the number of Children of Time books each appears in.
| Character | Books | First in this series |
|---|---|---|
| Holsten MasonClassicist aboard an ark ship | 1 | Children of Time 2015 |
| Dr Avrana KernScientist behind the uplift project | 3 | Children of Time 2015 |
| PortiaSpider of the evolving world | 3 | Children of Time 2015 |
| Disa LainEngineer | 2 | Children of Time 2015 |