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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Walking to Aldebaran, One Day All This Will Be Yours and Put Away Childish Things are the Destinations set, themed around journeys to terrible, isolating places. Solaris has just announced that the Terrible Worlds: Destinations omnibus will be available next year.
This August, the eighth Terrible World novella, The Hungry Gods, will be released. A story of a fallen and ruinous Earth that sees the return of the great trillionaire tech moguls, who are back from ruining space. This is the first of the Terrible Worlds: Innovations trio. Like the others, this is a set of independent stories organised around a linking theme.
The Hungry Gods is themed about runaway technological advances – perhaps the most classic of all SF themes, going all the way back to Rossum’s Universal Robots and Frankenstein.
Ironclads, Firewalkers and Ogres are the Revolutions trio, centred about dystopian futures of inequality and uprising – now collected in an omnibus edition, Terrible Worlds: Revolutions which is currently including in Storybundle’s Best of British SFF 2025 bundle here along with a range of other great titles.
Last year’s Saturation Point was the first book of the Transformations series, themed about metamorphosis and change, both willing and otherwise. As well as winning the BSFA award for shorter fiction, this novella has recently been optioned for a possible future movie production (see 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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New international releases of Adrian's novels arrived at Portia House today in the shape of the beautiful Italian and Czech translations of Lords of Uncreation, the third book in the Final Architects series.
I Signori Della Distruzione has been translated by Bianca Giolitti and Vládci Nestvůrnosti translated by Milan Pohl.
Also in the parcel was the lovely new Polish edition of Children of Time translated by Robert Lipski.
We have the covers for not one but two upcoming Tyrant Philosophers books to show you!
This year sees the release of the novella Lives of Bitter Rain which looks at the early career of Angilly from Days of Shattered Faith, how she entered the espionage game and some of her younger escapades. As with all the series to date this can be read on its own, but regular readers can expect a few familiar faces to turn up as well.
There will be a Goldsboro special edition of this book as well, to match the previous volumes.
Next year will bring the next full novel in the series, Pretenders to the Throne of God (which title suggests something of an escalation!). New and old characters find their destiny in the embattled city of Eres Ffenegh, with a full complement of demons, renegades, fools and cultists.
Again, readable on its own, but as the series goes on the number of connecting strands between works is only going to grow.
These beautiful covers are the work of the series’ regular artist, Joe Wilson, who has performed his usual magic bringing the details of each book to life. We’re particularly pleased with the stoat!
Adrian has been doing an impromptu podcast tour recently!
First of all, his podcast with Emma Newman, Starship Alexandria, recently put out its third episode, looking at Ursula K LeGuin’s The Lathe of Heaven, while this month’s patron exclusive episode looks at Doris Lessing’s The Memoirs of a Survivor, a very weird reading experience indeed.
If you’d like to read ahead, next month’s regular episode will look at the graphic novels Top Ten, volumes 1 and 2, by Moore, Ha and Cannon.
As well as this, Adrian has been a guest on several other podcasts, talking about things that he loves, including:
On Breakfast in the Ruins, a podcast specialising in Michael Moorcock and related fiction, talking about Jack Vance’s Dying Earth.
And on The Grognard Files, a podcast about ancient and modern tabletop role-playing games, talking about one of his favourite games, Ars Magica.
On Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones, talking about her tour de force young adult novel, The Homeward Bounders.
Enormous rejoicing was heard in Portia House this week as not one, but three finalist nominations came through for the 2025 Hugo Awards!
Adrian has two novels as finalists in the Best Novel category and the Tyrant Philosopher series is nominated for Best Series. Thank you to everyone who voted and we hope you enjoy all the books on the Finalist lists.
Adrian said, "I am over the moon that my work has been recognised in two categories in this year's Hugos. I'm particularly delighted that both Alien Clay and Service Model have made it onto the Best Novel category which I have not seen my work on before. The lists this year are extremely strong filled with a wide variety of excellent writing from all over the genre. I'm honoured to be included amongst them and look forward to the results in August."
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