Children of Time, about humans who leave a dying Earth for a terraformed planet where they meet a strange new species, praised for Clarkean sense of wonder
British author Adrian Tchaikovsky has won the Arthur C Clarke award for science fiction for a novel that judges have compared to the eponymous author’s own work.
Tchaikovsky won the UK’s most prestigious science fiction prize on Wednesday evening for Children of Time, in which the remnants of humanity leave a dying Earth for a terraformed new planet, only to discover that the world is now occupied by a new species. Tom Hunter, director of the award which was set up with a grant from science fiction giant Sir Arthur C Clarke in 1987, said the winning novel “has a universal scale and sense of wonder reminiscent of Clarke himself, combined with one of the best science fictional extrapolations of a not-so-alien species and their evolving society [that] I’ve ever read”. Previous winners of the Clarke award include Margaret Atwood, China Miéville and Lauren Beukes.
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