<p><b>From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epic <i>Children of Time</i>, winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award. </b><i><b>Shards of Earth</b></i><b> is the first high-octane, far-future space adventure in </b><b>Adrian Tchaikovsky's </b><b>Final Architecture trilogy.</b><br><br><b>'One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction' </b><b>–</b><b> Christopher Paolini</b><br><br><b>The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . .</b><br><br>Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade his mind in the war. And one of humanity’s heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers.<br><br>Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien enemy. Many escaped,
