It’s been waiting around through the age groups.

Now it’s time .

Thousands of years back, Earth’s terraforming program took to the celebrities. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien lifestyle – but it was their objective to overwrite it with the storage of Earth. Then humanity’s great empire dropped, and the program’s decisions had been lost to time.

Aeons later, humanity and its own new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the superstars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, searching for cousins from older Earth.

But those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better remaining undisturbed.

And it’s really been looking forward to them.

Children of Ruin follows the author’s Kids of Time, champion of the Arthur C. Clarke prize. It is set in the same world, with a fresh cast of people.