Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Adrian Tchaikovsky is an award-winning and highly acclaimed science fiction and fantasy author with works published at home in the UK and internationally.
Find Adrian as @Aptshadow on Bluesky
Adrian Tchaikovsky is an award-winning and highly acclaimed science fiction and fantasy author with works published at home in the UK and internationally.
Find Adrian as @Aptshadow on Bluesky
Adrian enjoyed being in conversation with Adrian Chiles on BBC 5 Live on Wednesday 24/9/25 from 1-2pm giving science fiction book recommendations along with Kate Slotover, host of the Book Club Review Podcast, and Emily H Wilson, former editor of the New Scientist and author of Inanna, and Gilgamesh.
Catch up is available on BBC Sounds or you can listen above.
Adrian is overjoyed to find that his novel, City of Last Chances, the first of the "Tyrant Philosophers" series, has won the Best Translated Novel at the prestigious 36th Galaxy Awards (Yinhe Awards) held this year on 19 September 2025 at Chengdu in China.
Congratulations also go to Hacken Lee, the translator, who has done an amazing job. The cover is absolutely phenomenal as well. Here it is in all its glory.
Best Audiobook: Science Fiction and Fantasy award is part of the British Audio Book Awards series and, excitingly, Bee Speaker is on the shortlist!
Bee Speaker, the new third book from the "Dogs of War" series is narrated by Adrian, Rob Hallett, and Gabrielle Nellis-Pain.
Imprint: Ad Astra. Producer: ID Audio.
This weekend, Adrian had a fantastic time visiting Bulgaria to take part in Bulgacon 2025.
He then visited the 13th Edition of the Sofia "Book Alley" fair where he was hosted by Artline Studios and took part in a variety of media engagements, met fans and did book signings.
Exciting news as Pan Macmillan have revealed the new Children of Strife cover
This is the highly anticipated fourth book in the multi-award winning and multi-award nominated Children of Time series and will be released from 12 March 2026.
In this epic adventure, we visit a far-future after earth fell, where ark ships had hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in earth’s forgotten past. We follow a ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a spectacularly punchy mantis shrimp captain as they rediscover one such world, and an ark.
Then human crewmate Alis wakes to discover that she, her captain and the ship’s intelligence are the only ones left on their ship. But what happened to those who left to explore the ark . . . and the world below?
In the US, Children of Time only came out in paperback originally.
But here is your chance to have the most glorious Orbit Gold Edition version of this epic and celebrated science fiction novel from Hatchett Publishing.
Featuring art by Donato Giancola, signed by Adrian, with gilded blue edges and bonus scenes, this is a truly spectacular edition.
Pre-order now to get 20% off
Ships on October 14 2025
A new Adrian Tchaikovsky release arrived at Portia House today in the form of the glorious hardback reissue of Spiderlight.
A ragged band of misfits must fulfil their quest to conquer the Dark Lord Darvezian but their wits and the Light's blessing is not all they will require. The terms of their prophecy insist they recruit a hideous giant spider into their party.
And if you think they are unhappy with that, how do you think Nth the Spider feels about it!
This short, fun, fantasy-quest hardback novel can be purchased from UK bookselling outlets including these:
"Spiderlight is a creepy-crawly treat from the master of non-human heroes, a joy from beginning to end,"
Paul Cornell, author of Witches of Lychford and The Severed Streets.
"Tchaikovsky pokes gentle fun at some classic tropes and deftly uses others in a way that shows his deep love for and broad knowledge of the genre," SF Bluestocking
Exciting news as Universal Pictures announces it will be developing Adrian's novella Saturation Point (2024 Winner of the British Science Fiction Award) for the big screen.
The deal includes script writer, Minnie Schedeen, and will be produced in collaboration between Cynthia Erivo and Solome Williams (Edith's Daughter) and Michael Bay and Brad Fuller (Platinum Dunes) with the executive producer being Alex Ginno.
Adrian says, "I'm absolutely over the moon that this has come about. I feel that Saturation Point is one of my most grounded and film-able works and I'm intrigued to see how the project develops."
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