2023/010: Children of Time — Adrian Tchaikovsky

2023/010: Children of Time — Adrian Tchaikovsky

Portia is not tuned to God’s frequency, but the tumultuous response from the ground tells her what has happened. ... translations come through swiftly, passing across the face of the planet as swift as thought. God has apologized. [p. 478]

Twenty light-years from Earth, Dr Avrana Kern is about to witness the triumph of her career: the release of an uplift nanovirus, and a barrel-full of monkeys, on the terraformed planet she thinks of as 'Kern's World'. ( Read more... )