Books like Children of Time

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky reads as epic, philosophical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Children of Ruin

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2019

Shares the maximal + collapse thread

89% genome match

The Dark Forest

Liu Cixin · 2008

Shares the maximal + human thread

87% genome match

A Fire Upon the Deep

Vernor Vinge · 1992

Shares the maximal + human thread

76% genome match

2001: A Space Odyssey

Arthur C. Clarke · 1968

Shares the maximal + human thread

71% genome match

Revelation Space

Alastair Reynolds · 2000

Shares the human + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Oryx and Crake

Margaret Atwood · 2003

Shares the human + collapse thread

69% genome match

The Terror

Dan Simmons · 2007

Shares the collapse + vhypno thread

69% genome match

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley · 1932

Shares the collapse + human thread

69% genome match

Riddley Walker

Russell Hoban

Shares the collapse + maximal thread

69% genome match

Fiskadoro

Denis Johnson · 1985

Shares the human + collapse thread

69% genome match

Solaris

Stanislaw Lem · 1961

Shares the human + vhypno thread

70% genome match

Blindsight

Peter Watts · 2006

Shares the human thread

73% genome match