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"Children of Ruin" follows Adrian Tchaikovsky's extraordinary "Children of Time", winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award.

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But 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.

Children of Memory is the unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time and Children of Ruin. On Imir, Captain Holt founded a new colony on an empty world. In the process, he created hope and a new future for humanity. But generations later, his descendants are struggling to survive. As harvests worsen and equipment fails, strangers appear in a town where everyone knows their neighbour. Now the inexplicable lurks in the woods and the community fears it’s being observed – that they’re not alone.