Adrian Tchaikovsky is an award-winning and highly acclaimed science fiction and fantasy author with works published at home in the UK and internationally.
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Exciting Award News!
Portia House was full of rejoicing today as Adrian won two awards in the 2025 Goonhammer Book Awards!
"Recently the Warhammer site, Goonhammer, held a poll for favourite Warhammer reads of 2025, and I’m delighted to find that my novel, Starseer’s Ruin, came out well! Not only did it come out top in the Age of Sigmar category (Warhammer’s main fantasy setting) but by a very narrow margin I also came away with their Best Writer category. I’ve been writing for Black Library for a while – in fact the only outside franchise I’ve written for. Getting this nod from BL readers definitely makes me feel that I’ve arrived as part of a longstanding tradition full of exceptional authors. Thank you!”
Green City Wars
A new Adrian Tchaikovsky novel
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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
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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?
The sequel to Hugo nominated novella,
Elder Race II: Engines of Reason
Time has moved on for Lynesse Fourth Daughter, now sister to the new regent and a magician in her own right. Meaning that she understands the ancient technology her world is based on.
Time has not moved on for Nyr Illim Tevitch, court magician of Lannesite, tutor to Lyn’s children, a man from another age and civilization left behind by a world that is constantly changing.
The two of them, estranged, are brought back together by a brigand uprising led by a new sorcerer commanding ancient machines. But when Lyn and Nyr investigate, they find he has unearthed worse things than a few decaying engines.
Pre-order for US only early 2026.
UK release planned later in the year.
Film deal announced for Saturation Point
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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