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Adrian Tchaikovsky

Review: Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky

February 27, 2025 by Paige Leave a Comment

Shroud Adrian Tchaikovsky

This is Adrian T doing what Adrian T does best. Writing stories that’ll make you sympathise with the aliens.

Filed Under: Aliens, First Contact, Reviews, Science Fiction Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shroud, Tor Books

Review: Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky

January 23, 2025 by Will Swardstrom Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Aliens, First Contact, Genetic Engineering, Hard SciFi, Reviews, Science Fiction Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, aliens, Book Review, First Contact, Orbit Books, Science Fiction

Review: Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky

January 9, 2025 by Craigbookwyrm Leave a Comment

Shroud is an epitomical example of Tchaikovsky’s ingenious world building and memorable non-human characters.

Filed Under: Aliens, First Contact, Hard SciFi, Horror, Reviews, Science Fiction, Standalone Tagged With: #TorBooks, Adrian Tchaikovsky, arc review, NetGalley, Shroud

Craig’s Top Reads of 2024

December 31, 2024 by Craigbookwyrm Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Best of the Year, Blog Posts, List, Recommendations Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, Adrian McKinty, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Becky Chambers, Fonda Lee, Guy Gavriel Kay, James S.A. Corey, Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence, Nicolas Lietzau, Octavia E. Butler, Rob J Hayes, Robert Jackson Bennett, Stark Holborn, T. R. Napper, Tim Hardie, Top Reads of 2024, Yuval Kordov

SFF Addicts Ep. 134: Consequences in World Creation with Adrian Tchaikovsky (Mini-Masterclass)

December 10, 2024 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Interview, Masterclass, 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

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

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.

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

TBRCon2024 Highlight: Developing Alien Races with Christopher Paolini, Adrian Tchaikovsky, J.S. Dewes & More

July 12, 2024 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

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.”

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Book Tube, TBRCon2024 Tagged With: Ada Hoffmann, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Christopher Paolini, Frasier Armitage, J.S. Dewes, K.B. Wagers, TBRCon2024, Virtual Convention

Review: Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky

June 25, 2024 by Paige Leave a Comment

Service Model by Adrin 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.

Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence, Dystopian, Mechs/Robots, Post-Apocalyptic, Reviews, Science Fiction Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Service Model, Tor Books

Review: Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky

February 11, 2024 by Craigbookwyrm Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Aliens, Dystopian, Hard SciFi, Reviews, Science Fiction, Standalone Tagged With: #Tordotcom, Adrian Tchaikovsky, alien clay, NetGalley, Pan Macmillan, Science Fiction

Review: Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky

November 30, 2023 by Craigbookwyrm Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Dystopian, Hard SciFi, Reviews, Science Fiction, Standalone Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Book Review, Cage of Souls, Science Fiction

TBRCon2023 Highlight: A New Golden Age of Space Opera (Panel)

August 18, 2023 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Every week, we are highlighting a panel from TBRCon2023, looking back on the amazing variety of panels that we had the honor of hosting.

This week, join moderator/podcaster Adrian M. Gibson and authors Adrian Tchaikovsky, Paul McAuley, Aliette de Bodard, N.E. Davenport and Jonathan Nevair for a TBRCon2023 author panel on “A New Golden Age of Space Opera.”

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Book Tube, TBRCon2023 Tagged With: Adrian M. Gibson, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Aliette de Bodard, Author Panel, Jonathan Nevair, N.E. Davenport, Paul McAuley, TBRCon2023

SFF Addicts Ep. 33: Our Favorite Reads of 2022 (with Friends Talking Fantasy Podcast)

December 13, 2022 by Adrian M. Gibson Leave a Comment

Join host Adrian M. Gibson and podcasters Dylan Marsh and Charles M.C. (co-hosts of Friends Talking Fantasy Podcast) as they reminisce on the year that was. During the panel they share their top picks for favorite SFF reads of the year (3 each for a total of 9), reflect on their reading habits in 2022, offer some honorable mentions, officially dub Adrian the ‘Bad Boy of SFF’ and more.

Filed Under: Blog Posts, Podcast, SFF Addicts Podcast Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Among Thieves, Babel, Best of 2022, Emily St. John Mandel, Eyes of the Void, Friends Talking Fantasy, Friends Talking Fantasy Podcast, John Gwynne, Locklands, M.J. Kuhn, Nghi Vo, Podcast, R. F. Kuang, Robert Jackson Bennett, Saara El-Arifi, Sea of Tranquility, SFF Addicts, The Chosen and the Beautiful, The Final Strife, The Hunger of the Gods, The Lies of Locke Lamora

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