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 is overjoyed to find that his full length novel, Shroud, has been nominated in the top 10 Novel shortlist for the Locus Awards 2026. To also find out that his novella set in the "Tyrant Philosopher's" series, Lives of Bitter Rain, is also in the top 10 list for the Novellas category was even more of a happy surprise!
Lives of Bitter Rain tells the story of a world steeped in magic of all flavours: divination, demonology, necromancy, alchemy, gods, monsters, portals to other dimensions and worlds - and what happens when it collides with an implacable foe - the Tyrant Philosophers - a group determined to bring reason, logic and 'perfection' to the exuberant magical chaos and where its falling rain will always be bitter.
Shroud is a pitch black planet: a high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment and full of life. However, it is surprised by an emergency crash landing from two female humans, Juna and Mai. Understanding the Other and Simply Staying Alive are only the start of the adventure!
A very big "thank you" to everyone who has voted for these books and read them with such enjoyment.
Adrian is overjoyed to find that Children of Strife is a Sunday Times Bestselling Novel!
A big thank you to all our Scifi and Fantasy readership.
Free Story!
Creative Futures is a collection of short stories from SFF authors that draw inspiration from the Creative Futures Research Project, a partnership between Coventry University and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL), the UK Ministry of Defence’s science and technology organisation. Edited by Dr Allen Stroud.
Ahead of the release of Children of Strife on 26th March comes the news that Rowan, Rook, and Decard, the game developers responsible for a range of incredible games including Spire, Heart, Eat the Reich and the game adaptation of DIE, will be adapting Children of Time for the gaming table.
Adrian says: “I’ve been a keen gamer for decades, and the idea of having one of my books made into a tabletop game has always been an ambition. Children of Time is a particularly tricky prospect, though, given the book’s timescale and different perspectives. When RRD came to me with an interest in the project, it turned out they’d recently acquired the Legacy: Life Among the Ruins system. Not only was this something I was already fond of, but it’s explicitly designed for a game that takes place over multiple different time periods, making it perfect for the setting. I’ve had a look at the work RRD have done so far, and they’re creating something really quite special. I’m really looking forwards to being able to reveal more details and see the finished product.”
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
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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