Children of Time

by Deborah Moulton

David reluctantly obeys the laws of the computer-controlled government of the future which demands that every child spend every other month with a foster parent until he is imprisoned by a mad woman in a castle with hundreds of other children

Genres: Young Adult, Fiction, Science Fiction, Dystopia

198 pages, Hardcover

First published November 30, 1989

Reviews

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my favorite books I read it in high school from our library.

[Mel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked it enough to read more than once.

[Rachael · Rating 5 out of 5]

I haven't read this book in decades, but when I was in middle school, it was in both the school and public libraries. The dystopian genre hadn't exploded yet. The idea of being loaned out every other month as a foster kid because the world had too few children haunts me to this day. I remember reading it multiple times.

[Masha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this as a young kid, couldn't remember the name of the book until I wrote out a big paragraph summarizing what I remembered about the plot into a book subreddit and someone finally helped me find it. it's an incredible book, it's just as good of a story reading it as an adult as it was reading it as a kid.

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even though I didn't particularly love this while reading it during my teen years, this is a book that has stayed with me over time. I find myself being reminded of the plot at odd times, so often in fact that I had to go find the book again only a few months after first reading it just so I could remember the name (and I haven't forgotten it in all the years since).

It had its issues, I'm not denying that, but the plot itself was interesting enough to overcome them. This was definitely a hidden gem.

[Traci · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book I keep coming back to. It's a fairly quick read, but there is so much there. Moulton's idea of the future world (being run by computers, and including the Intellectual Olympics), and the way the world goes full circle is thought-provoking. An interesting, and entertaining, look at a possibility.

[Debbie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Facing the Ultimate controlling "Mother," and a power-hungry villain, yet the voice of reason across generations resounds.