Cover Launch: Children of Time Orbit Gold Edition by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Orbit is pleased to present our latest Orbit Gold Edition, Children of Time (US) by Adrian Tchaikovsky coming October 2025!

This Gold Edition will ship on September 9, 2025, and is available exclusively here. Preorder today to get a 20% discount and secure your signed copy of Children of Time.

Children of Time is the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning tale of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet. This gorgeous, deluxe collector’s edition of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s science fiction modern classic features:

An exclusive box illustrated by Donato Giancola
A signed hardcover copy of Children of Time
Gilded blue edges
Four color endpaper art
A brand-new foil-stamped fabric cover
A ribbon bookmark
Bonus scenes from Children of Time

Who will inherit this new Earth?

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age—a world terraformed and prepared for human life.

But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind’s worst nightmare.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?