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's new novel, Starseer's Ruin, for Warhammer "Age of Sigmar" will be available for pre-order from Games Workshop and high street retailers on Saturday 26th October, 2025.
The story tells of a dutiful Skink Starpriest on an adventure to find the lost wreck of an ancient Seraphon temple-ship.
Adrian also had a chat with the lovely folks at Warhammer about his love of lizards and a link to the interview is below.
In a city of sunshine and secrets, the shadows belong to the animals. Private Investigator, Scotch, a genetically engineered racoon races to expose a deadly conspiracy – before it tears his whole world apart!
Green City Wars is a solarpunk noir science fiction novel filled with crime and mystery. It's a dynamic action-filled story guaranteed to have you guessing right until the end.
Released into the wild on 25 June 2026
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.
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 Li Keqin, the translator, who has done an amazing job. The cover is absolutely phenomenal as well. Here it is in all its glory.
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?
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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