The Child Garden
 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.The novel is structured as two books with a brief introduction. The first book was originally published in two parts as Love Sickness in the Summer and Autumn 1987 editions of the British science fiction magazine Interzone. It won the 1988 BFSA Award and placed 8th in the Locus Poll Award for Best Novella.