Adrian Tchaikovsky Headlines March Sci-Fi

Adrian Tchaikovsky's upcoming novel, *Children of Strife*, is the fourth installment in a series that has already received significant acclaim. The first book, *Children of Time*, won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2016. The series as a whole was awarded a Hugo Award for Best Series in 2023. The *Children of Time* series is known for its epic scale and exploration of non-human intelligence. The first novel follows the evolution of a civilization of intelligent spiders on a terraformed planet and the journey of the last remnants of humanity seeking a new home. *Children of Strife* continues this narrative, following a ship with a mixed crew of humans and other intelligent species as they rediscover a lost, terraformed world. The speculative retelling of *Moby-Dick* is titled *Call Me Ishmaelle*, penned by British-Chinese author Xiaolu Guo. Published in 2025, the novel reimagines the classic tale from a feminist perspective with a teenage girl, who disguises herself as a boy to work on a whaling ship, as the protagonist. Eoghan Walls's *Field Notes from an Extinction* is a historical novel set in 1847 on a remote Irish island during the Great Famine. The story is presented as the journal of a fictitious English ornithologist sent to study the Great Auk, whose work is upended by the arrival of a feral child.