The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.<br/><br/>Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time.<br/><br/>Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, hoping to find cousins from old Earth.<br/><br/>But those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better left undisturbed.<br/><br/>And it's been waiting for them.<br/>For more from Adrian Tchaikovsky, check out:<br/>Children of Time