Children of Strife: An incredible far-future adventure set within the Children of Time series universe

The acclaimed voice of the Children of Time Universe, Mel Hudson, returns for this highly-anticipated fourth instalment.

They thought they’d found refuge. But this paradise became their prison.

Centuries ago, a maverick terraforming team played God with a distant planet. Out of their vanity and spite, something terrible and unexpected arose.

Generations 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.

Searching 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?

Why listeners love Adrian Tchaikovsky, bestselling author of acclaimed audiobook hits Alien Clay and Service Model:

‘Brilliant science fiction and far-out world-building’ - James McAvoy

‘One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction’ - Christopher Paolini

‘Magnificent’ - Ian McDonald

Children of Time won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel w/c 24 August 2016

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Ljudbok: 26 mars 2026