Children Of Time (novel)
''Children of Time'' is a 2015 science fiction novel by author Adrian Tchaikovsky Adrian Czajkowski (spelled as Adrian Tchaikovsky for his books) is a British fantasy and science fiction author. He is known best for his series ''Shadows of the Apt'', and for his novel '' Children of Time''. ''Children of Time'' was awarded t .... The work was praised by the ''Financial Times'' for "tackling big themes—gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness—with brio." It was selected from a shortlist of six works and a total pool of 113 books to be awarded the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best science fiction of the year in August 2016. The director of the award program said that the novel has a "universal scale and sense of wonder reminiscent of Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke himself." In July 2017, the rights were Option (filmmaking), optioned for a potential film adaptation. The next in the series, ''Children of Ruin (novel), Children of Ruin'', was published in 2019, followed b ...
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Uplift (science Fiction)
In science fiction, uplift is a developmental process to transform a certain species of animals into more intelligent beings by other, already-intelligent beings. This is usually accomplished by cultural, technological, or evolutional interventions like genetic engineering but any fictional or real process can be used. The earliest appearance of the concept is in H. G. Wells's 1896 novel ''The Island of Doctor Moreau'', and more recently appears in David Brin's '' Uplift series'' and other science fiction works. History of the concept The concept can be traced to H. G. Wells's novel ''The Island of Doctor Moreau'' (1896),FROM THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU TO LIVES OF THE MONSTER DOGS: UPLIFTED ANIMALS, WISH FULFILLMENT, AND ORIGINAL SIN
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