This is a breathtaking novel from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke award winning author. The walls between many worlds are collapsing and only a handful of people are in on this secret. But how can they stop the end of the universe?

After two scientists crash on a hostile moon, they must use every tool at their disposal to survive. A tense, atmospheric voyage into the unknown from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time.

'My most anticipated book of the year' - Peter F. Hamilton, Britain's no.1 science fiction writer

Children of Ruin follows Adrian Tchaikovsky's extraordinary Children of Time, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award. It is set in the same universe, with new characters and a thrilling narrative.

It has been waiting through the ages. Now it's time . . .

Thousands of years ago, Earth’s terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life – but i...

A thrilling far-future space adventure, and the second instalment in the epic Final Architecture trilogy, from the Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky.

From Adrian Tchaikovsky, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Children of Time, comes an unparalleled narrative of alien contact and human discovery in this follow-up to Children of Ruin.