Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Welcome back! Today we’re talking about the award winning series, Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

THIS is how sci-fi is meant to be written! It’s not just shooting lasers and superpowers and spaceships. This is DEEP sci-fi, with incredible scientific accuracy, intricate worldbuilding, and some heavy discussions around the nature of the universe and humanity itself.

But it’s also a pretty weird concept. I never would have thought this idea would work, let alone, work so well.

Now let’s take a look at this trilogy, spoiler free, and discuss what it’s all about and see if these books are right for you.

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00:00 Intro
01:24 The Concept
02:32 Weird Worldbuilding
05:47 Trilogy Structure & Thought Experiments
07:36 Two Overlapping Plots
10:07 Characters from Time to Time
12:57 Beautiful Themes
16:06 An Award Rejected
18:15 Representation
19:06 Content Warning
19:55 Is the Ending worth it?
20:37 How much should you try?