Children of Time

This book blew my socks off. This is excellent space science fiction without being a space opera. In my mind, and in the definition from several sources, a space opera is piece of fiction set in outer space with a typically simplistic and melodramatic nature. This was anything but simplistic or melodramatic. This was high drama featuring the evolution of uplifted spiders and the frustrations of a colony ship looking for a final home for the human race. Despite taking nearly two weeks to finish this 600-page doorstopper, I ate this up. This book won the 2016 Arthur C. Clarke award.

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