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    "annotation": "<p>IT HAS WAITED THROUGH THE AGES. NOW IT'S TIME . . .</p>\n<p>Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time.</p>\n<p>Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, hoping to find cousins from Old Earth.</p>\n<p>However, those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better left undisturbed. And it's been waiting for them.</p>\n<p>Praise for CHILDREN OF TIME 'The smartest evolutionary world-building you'll ever read' Peter F. Hamilton 'Brilliant science fiction and far-out world-building' James McAvoy 'Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human' Patrick Ness 'This is superior stuff, tackling big themes' Financial Times</p>",
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