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For questions regarding Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series, starting with the book Children of Time released in 2015.

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In children of ruin, what was Kern trying to hold back?

In one scene where Liff finally encountered the "witch" (Kern), Kern warns Liff that she (Kern) is holding back something horrifying. What was Kern doing? It never really seemed to come up ...
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Was the Old Empire post scarcity?

In both Children of Time, and Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky, the main conflict seems to be science Vs anti-science and there exists highly advanced technology including AI, gene editing and ...
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In Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Ruin," what is the ship the Voyager encounters as it enters the Nod system?

I may have missed it. The Voyager encounters a destroyed ship leaving the system. It is implied that it is a dead ship, possibly destroyed in the ongoing conflict. But why was it racing out of the ...
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