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<div dir="auto">I suggested Children of Ruin. I did so purely out of selfish desire. I read Children of Time and enjoyed it immensely. It won the Clarke Award so I would suggest that the investment of time needed to read Children of Time would not be squandered.
I do think the world building (universe building b/c space?) of the first book is carried forward into the second and your enjoyment will only be amplified having read it. That being said I am only 100 pages into CoR so we shall see if Adrian keeps up the
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<div dir="auto"><i>Sent from my Sprint Phone.</i></div>
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<div dir="auto"><b>From: </b>David G. Grubbs</div>
<div dir="auto"><b>Date: </b>Sun, May 9, 2021 5:19 PM</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I asked a similar question. The answer seems to be that books are separate enough to make sense on their own.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 5:09 PM Chip Hitchcock <<a href="mailto:cjhi@newcastle2.com">cjhi@newcastle2.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>the question on <i>Children of Ruin</i> reminds me to ask: was there a reason the proposer suggested a book which is not the first in a series (or worse, duology)? Can anyone who has already read both comment on how safe/sane/... it is to just read this
one without reading <i>Children of Time</i>? These are both monster books; I'm torn between falling-into-the-middle-with-no-idea-wtf-is-going-on and committing a large chunk of time to playing catchup.<br>
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