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This provides a fascinating critique of the Children of Time themes. In Children of Time , the protagonists are building something new, evolving over millennia. In Elder Race , the protagonist is the custodian of something dying. Nyx represents the burnout of a civilization that has reached its peak and receded. He is a man out of time, suffering from a profound sense of "solipsism syndrome"—the psychological condition where an individual feels that they are the only "real" thing in the universe, because everyone else is so far removed from them. elder race adrian tchaikovsky epub