Shards of Earth -- Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hardcover F. Ennui the next installment in the

the next installment in the cult fan favorite series

"It was a life-raft for me

and The Poisonwood Bible and recipient of numerous literary awards--including the National Humanities Medal

sometimes using metaphor and imagery to soften those blows

Shards of Earth -- Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hardcover F. Ennui the next installment in theThe Arthur C. Clarke award winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . . Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater