![]() ![]() ![]() The first two books focus on discovering new forms of life that evolved through Earth’s old web, but Children of Memory focuses on finding a shard of the original humanity that has been in isolation for a long time and things have gotten…weird.Īs I mentioned before, there are many similarities in theme and message between the three books, but Children of Memory very much has its own vibe. ![]() The remnants of Earth’s humanity get on arc ships and travel thousands of years to new planets to see how the terraforming/uplift projects are doing. Earth then explodes, all the uplift projects get out of whack, and different animals start achieving sentience and civilization over thousands of years. If you are unfamiliar with the books I am talking about ( Children of Time, Ruin, and now Memory ), they all take place in a universe where scientists tried to restart evolution with monkeys on fresh terraformed planets to see what new kinds of humanity would evolve. What is truly amazing about these books is that they all have a clear throughline focusing on what it means to be human and the nature of evolution, yet they are different in narrative focus, storytelling method, subject, and style. Children of Memory is the third book in a series that Adrian Tchaikowsky keeps promising won’t have sequels (and I am very glad he wrote them despite his promises). We flipped a coin to determine who would get to review this and I said the quarter would get caught in a time paradox so here we are. ![]()
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