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SFF Addicts Ep. 133: Adrian Tchaikovsky talks Alien Clay, Days of Shattered Faith, TTRPGs & More

December 3, 2024 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Episode 133 of SFF Addicts has arrived!

Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they chat with award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky about his new novels Days of Shattered Faith and Alien Clay, growing up on Doctor Who, how TTRPGs inspire him, ideation and the strangeness of nature, empathizing with aliens and non-human characters, creativity and limitations, authoritarianism and bureaucracy in The Tyrant Philosophers series, experimenting with multiple POVs and vignettes, colonialism, symbiosis and much more.

NOTE: This is part one of a two-part chat with Adrian. Stayed tuned next week for his mini-masterclass on Consequences in World Creation.


Adrian Tchaikovsky is the award-winning science fiction and fantasy author of the Children of Time series, The Final Architecture series, the Shadows of the Apt series, The Tyrant Philosophers series, Alien Clay and much more. His newest release is Days of Shattered Faith, which you can purchase ⁠here⁠.

Find Adrian on ⁠Twitter⁠, ⁠Bluesky⁠, ⁠Amazon⁠ and ⁠his personal website⁠.


Episode 133 is available to stream and download on:

Anchor | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Podcast Addict | Amazon Music | Overcast | RadioPublic | Pocket Casts | Breaker | Podbay

You can also watch the episode below via the FanFiAddict YouTube channel or on Spotify, and the full episode archive for the show is available here. Check out the SFF Addicts Twitter or Instagram accounts for more frequent updates.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, Adrian Tchaikovsky, alien clay, City of Last Chances, Days of Shattered Faith, Head of Zeus, M. J. Kuhn, SFF Addicts, SFF Addicts Podcast, The Tyrant Philosophers, Tor Books

About Adrian M. Gibson

Adrian M. Gibson is an award-winning Canadian SFF author, podcaster, illustrator and tattoo artist. In 2021, he created the SFF Addicts podcast, which he co-hosts with fellow authors M. J. Kuhn and Greta Kelly. The three host in-depth interviews with an array of science fiction and fantasy authors, as well as writing masterclasses.

Mushroom Blues, the first book in The Hofmann Report series, is his debut novel.

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