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  "id": "booksreddit:recommendation-receipt:children-of-time",
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    "slug": "children-of-time",
    "title": "Children of Time",
    "author": "Adrian Tchaikovsky",
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      "Adrian Tchaikovsky"
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    "first_published": 2015
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  "consensus": "Children of Time is r/printSF's default answer at this point: 3977 of 4595 total mentions, next to 411 on r/suggestmeabook and 203 on r/Fantasy. Growth has been almost uninterrupted, 412 mentions in 2019 climbing to 840 in 2024, easing only slightly to 723 in 2025. \" Threads treat Adrian Tchaikovsky as mid-hot-streak, with a recommender (↑198) calling him an extremely hot streak author right now, alongside Ann Leckie.",
  "read_if": "If you already live in r/printSF, you've probably seen this one three times this month; 3977 of its 4595 mentions happen there. Come for a spider civilization built out believably across generations, not a single adventuring cast. Anyone worried about a non-human-heavy cast should read the preemptive defense in the threads (↑191) before writing it off.",
  "skip_if": "The sample shows almost no independent discussion; it mostly rides along inside bigger recommendation-list comments rather than generating its own threads.",
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    "subreddit": "Fantasy",
    "excerpt": "Probably the best example I've seen is the Children of Time trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Brilliant. I can honestly only think of one other in Chronicles of Elantra, and its really well done but the race is only introduced in the 18th book or so in the series. Really enjoying the race, though!",
    "score": 339,
    "sentiment": 0.9,
    "published_at": "2023-12-01T02:14:33+00:00",
    "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/18802y3/fiction_in_which_spiders_are_not_necessarily/kbhq7xu/"
  },
  "dissent": {
    "editorial_caveat": "The sample shows almost no independent discussion; it mostly rides along inside bigger recommendation-list comments rather than generating its own threads.",
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  },
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  "updated_at": "2026-07-06T00:00:00.000Z",
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    {
      "subreddit": "Fantasy",
      "excerpt": "Probably the best example I've seen is the Children of Time trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Brilliant. I can honestly only think of one other in Chronicles of Elantra, and its really well done but the race is only introduced in the 18th book or so in the series. Really enjoying the race, though!",
      "score": 339,
      "sentiment": 0.9,
      "published_at": "2023-12-01T02:14:33+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/18802y3/fiction_in_which_spiders_are_not_necessarily/kbhq7xu/"
    },
    {
      "subreddit": "Fantasy",
      "excerpt": "Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky",
      "score": 228,
      "sentiment": 0.4,
      "published_at": "2024-11-28T23:26:42+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1h283zz/im_dying_for_a_good_scifi_read/lzhcsd1/"
    },
    {
      "subreddit": "printSF",
      "excerpt": "Let me save you a click... Dark Matter, by Blake Crouch All Systems Red, by Martha Wells Recursion, by Blake Crouch The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, by Becky Chamber Wool, by Hugh Howey Red Rising, by Pierce Brown Exhalation, by Ted Chiang We Are Legion, by Denn…",
      "score": 218,
      "sentiment": 0.5,
      "published_at": "2022-12-20T19:16:49+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/zqqah1/10_best_scifi_novels_of_the_last_10_years/j10cqe4/"
    },
    {
      "subreddit": "printSF",
      "excerpt": "Jeff VanderMeer is really likely to be a real hall-of-famer, and, and I think Adrian Tchaikovskyn is on an extremely hot streak right now with the Children of Time books (and others), as is Ann Leckie, who I tend to see as LeGuin 2.0. I've this very sneaky suspicion that Arkady Martine, Becky Ch…",
      "score": 198,
      "sentiment": 0.6,
      "published_at": "2024-09-13T23:50:04+00:00",
      "permalink": "https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1fg8dru/science_fiction_books_whats_hot_right_now/ln0dno9/"
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    "Mention counts describe the tracked Reddit sample, not every Reddit comment or every reader.",
    "Average sentiment summarizes sampled discussion and is not a star rating.",
    "Editorial consensus, reader fit, and caveats are derived from the existing sourced book synthesis."
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