Synopsis: From the Arthur C. Clarke award winner, Adrian Tchaikovsky, comes the third instalment of the DOGS OF WAR science fiction series, a future where genetically engineered “Bioforms” have inherited not the Earth, but the Solar System. The end of the world has been and gone. There was no one great natural disaster, no all-consuming […]
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Review: Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Synopsis: On a planet shrouded in darkness, a stranded crew must fight for survival. But, the darkness may have plans of its own in this wildly original story from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author of Children of Time. They looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back . . . […]
Review: Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
This is Adrian T doing what Adrian T does best. Writing stories that’ll make you sympathise with the aliens.
Review: Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Synopsis The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates, the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival, he discovers that Kiln has a secret. Humanity is not the first intelligent life to set […]
Review: Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Shroud is an epitomical example of Tchaikovsky’s ingenious world building and memorable non-human characters.
Craig’s Top Reads of 2024
It’s the end of the year as we know it (and I feel full of cheese and chocolate). 2024 has been an extremely good reading year for me, and with so many highlights it’s made this post very difficult to narrow down. So I’m going to do something a little different and break it up […]
SFF Addicts Ep. 134: Consequences in World Creation with Adrian Tchaikovsky (Mini-Masterclass)
Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they delve into a mini-masterclass on Consequences in World Creation with award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky. During the episode, Adrian confronts the many consequences of worldbuilding, including establishing a logical fictional “reality”, the depths and possibilities of world creation, being flexible with your world and its consequences, immersion and logical inconsistencies, mapping out consequences and knock-on effects, organizing story/world information, how characters test the limits of your world, fixing bad worldbuilding choices and more.
SFF Addicts Ep. 133: Adrian Tchaikovsky talks Alien Clay, Days of Shattered Faith, TTRPGs & More
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.
TBRCon2024 Highlight: Developing Alien Races with Christopher Paolini, Adrian Tchaikovsky, J.S. Dewes & More
Every Friday, we’re highlighting a panel from the TBRCon2024 all-virtual SF/F/H convention, looking back on the incredible variety of discussions that we had the honor of hosting.
This week, join moderator/author Frasier Armitage and panelists Christopher Paolini, Adrian Tchaikovsky, J.S. Dewes, Ada Hoffmann and K.B. Wagers for a TBRCon2024 panel on “Developing Alien Races.”
Review: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adrian Tchaikovsky can do no wrong. Service Model is an utter triumph of fun sci-fi with an added edge of things being a liiiiittle too close to home. Told entirely from the perspective of Charles, a personal valet robot who embarks on quite the journey.
Charles at the start of the book is a very unintentionally humorous robot, and his observations of the world around him are so very naive. I really enjoyed the first quarter of the book where he’s interacting with other robots who are following their routines, and the lack of human interaction is messing with their systems. A particular favourite was the detective and doctor robots, it was for me the first realisation of just how funny this book can be.
Review: Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Alien Clay provides further evidence of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s unparalleled and unfathomable imagination. A master storyteller and world builder, Tchaikovsky delivers another fascinating speculative vision of an alien ecology, that is innovative and immersive.
Review: Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Cage of Souls is a captivating work of speculative fiction of the highest order. A standalone that felt like an entire series in scope and imagination. Adrian Tchaikovsky’s world building and storytelling is off the charts in this outrageously entertaining story.