The Child Garden

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The Child Garden

Cover of first edition (hardcover)
Author Geoff Ryman
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Science fiction novel
Publisher Unwin Hyman
Publication date 1989
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages 389 pp
ISBN ISBN 0-044-40393-3

The Child Garden is a 1989 science fiction novel by Geoff Ryman. It won both the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1990.

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In a future tropical England cancer has been cured, but as a result the human lifespan has been halved. The novel tells the story of Milena, a young woman who is immune to the viruses which are routinely used to educate people.

It is a world transformed by global warming and by advances in genetic engineering. Houses, machines, even spaceships are genetically-engineered lifeforms.