01780cam a2200349 i 4500 1164789854 TxAuBib 20191028120000.0 190502s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316452533 hbk. 031645253X hbk. (OCoLC)1099694978 IG$ eng rda IG$ LNC OCLCO UOK TxAuBib rda Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972-, author. Children of ruin / Adrian Tchaikovsky. First U.S. edition. New York, NY : Orbit, 2019. 597 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes excerpts from: Red moon / by Kim Stanley Robinson (pages 574-581); Roswater / by Tade Thomspson (pages584-597). 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. 20191028. Life on other planets Fiction. Human-alien encounters Fiction. Interplanetary voyages Fiction. Spiders Juvenile fiction. Survival Fiction. Science fiction. TXKIP