Nominatsiya na premiyu «Hyugo». Finalist premii Dzheymsa Tiptri-mladshego. Nominatsiya na premiyu Britanskoy assotsiatsii nauchnoy fantastiki. Otets Emilio Sandos, edinstvennyy vyzhivshiy i vernuvshiysya na Zemlyu uchastnik pervoy mezhzvezdnoy ekspeditsii na planetu Rakhat, postepenno prihodit v sebya ot perezhityh ispytaniy. Obschestvo iezuitov gotovit vtoruyu missiyu na alfu Tsentavra, i emu nuzhna pomosch Sandosa v podgotovke. Ottsa Emilio zhdut starye druzya i novye otkrytiya. Emu predstoit reshit slozhnye voprosy o svoem meste vo Vselennoy, granitsy kotoroy uzhe vyshli za predely Solnechnoy sistemy. U Sandosa net vozmozhnosti sbezhat ot proshlogo, no est shans izmenit buduschee. A buduschee teper - za detmi, kotorye rozhdeny v dalekom kosmose. Porazhayuschiy voobrazhenie bogatym, nasyschennym syuzhetom i zapominayuschimisya personazhami, napolnennyy chelovechnostyu i yumorom, «Deti Bozhii» - nezabyvaemyy i vdohnovlyayuschiy roman, kotoryy stal prekrasnym preemnikom «Ptitsy maloy».