01680cam a2200349 i 4500 429595249 TxAuBib 20200714120000.0 190502s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316452533 $15.99 031645253X $15.99 (OCoLC)1099694978 TxAuBib rda Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972- Children of ruin / Adrian Tchaikovsky. First U.S. edition. New York, NY : Orbit, 2019. 597 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Extras include an excerpts from Red moon by Kim Stanley Robinson and Roswater by Tade Thomspson. 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. 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. But those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better left undisturbed. And it's been waiting for them. 20200714. Life on other planets Fiction. Human-alien encounters Fiction. Interplanetary voyages Fiction. Spiders Fiction. Survival Fiction. Science fiction. Space operas (Fiction.)