Children of Strife

Children of StrifeThe unmissable next installment of the highly acclaimed Children of Time series from award winning sci fi master Adrian Tchaikovsky. Long ago, towards the end of humanity's first expansion into space, the vast majority of worlds were terraformed under the auspices of irascible genius Avrana Kern. But Kern had rivals, and a team of self proclaimed innovators took one world from her remit and devoted themselves to reshaping it into a paradise in their

With her signature wit and wisdom

you can keep on investing in life

Didn’t anticipate the bastard daughter who was supposed to die with her mother—on his order

sexiest prude Will’s ever met

A mild-mannered professor from Chicago

Phoebe offers not a self-improvement PowerPoint

and the whole of his papacy up to the present day

a neurotic and newly tenured professor

Count along with Ten Little Pirates and watch as they disappear

thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond

It would become one of Canada’s highest-profile law firms

leaving behind their uncle Will