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From the award-winning master of sci-fi Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Strife is the unmissable space opera follow-up to the highly acclaimed Children of Time, Children of Ruin and Children of Memory.They thought they’d found refuge. But paradise became a prison.The Sunday Times bestselling science-fiction adventure from the master of the genre, Adrian Tchaikovsky.Millennia ago, a maverick terraforming team played God with a distant planet. Now, generations later, scientist Alis wakes to a nightmare while orbiting this same world. Her research vessel discovered the abandoned outpost, but her crew has met with disaster – leaving her stranded with only Cato, the belligerent mantis-shrimp captain, and Kern, the ship’s AI.Attempting to rescue a missing shipmate, Alis and Cato must descend into the wilderness of the planet below. But the ancient terraformers left something terrifying behind. What horrors did they unleash? And could their last surviving crewmate become a greater threat than

A rousing fantasy epic of friendship, lies and what it takes to be a hero – set amongst a misfit crew of a spider, priestess, mage, knight, ranger and rogue. From the award-winning Adrian Tchaikovsky.Allies will become enemies.Enemies will become allies.And the Dark Lord is waiting.The Church of Armes of the Light has long fought the forces of Darkness. Their great prophecy foretells that Dark Lord Darvezian will fall to a band of misfits, led by a high priestess and armed with just their wits and the Light’s blessing.But to reach the Dark Lord they will apparently need a spider. Though even the power of sorcery can’t disguise this grotesque creature’s true and appalling nature, nor its unwillingness to be part of their quest. As priestess, mage, knight, ranger and rogue (and spider) squabble their way through a perilous journey, they question who they can trust. For a mighty confrontation lies ahead, and it will change all their worlds for ever.Spiderlight is an exhilarating fantasy q

Arthur C. Clarke winner andSunday Timesbestseller returns to a world steeped in magic—and the Tyrant Philosophers' campaign to bring reason, logic and “perfection” to it.Eres Ffenegh—“the City on the Back of a Crab”—is the next state slated for conquest by the Palleseen, but its citizens won’t give up sovereignty easily, and the siege has now dragged into the harsh Eresi winter. The defenders—both locals and Pal renegades, hold an easy alliance against the enemy at the gates, while the Pal army is constantly looking over its shoulder for the next self-destructive dictate of their government back home.Within the city, Devil Jack is the apprentice to the notorious conjurer and bawd known as the Widow, a good man driven to bargaining with hell to get back what he’s lost. Meanwhile Kiffel ea Leachan is the city’s champion, a child of privilege who’s just lost everything to the invaders. We follow the ups and downs of both as they try to survive the siege and make their own destinies in a w