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Just finished Children of Strife and dealing with some literary sci-fi withdrawal. I loved it. But the idea of having to wait years for another visit to that universe is a real bummer.

That's when I remembered the 1986 novel The Genesis Quest by Donald Moffitt. It's got some serious Children of Time vibes.

The alien Nar receive a radio message from a distant galaxy 73 million light-years away. They decode it and learn it's instructions on how recreate the human species.

There's a sequel call Second Genesis where the hunans decided to find Earth and head home.