The denizens of Portia House welcomed another new arrival through the post of Blood of the Imperium from Warhammer.
This is a short story collection with a contribution from Adrian alongside Warhammer luminaries such as Mike Brooks and Jude Reid.
Adrian's story, The Long and Hungry Road looks into the inner hive mind of the Tyranids.
This short story collection will be released on 16 November 2024
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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A commercial expedition to a distant star system discovers a pitch-black moon alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is deadly to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud.
Under no circumstances can a human survive Shroud’s inhospitable surface – but a catastrophic accident forces Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne to make an emergency landing in a barely adequate escape vehicle. Alone, and fighting for survival, the two women embark on a gruelling journey across land, sea and air in search of salvation.
Today's arrival at Portia House was some signing sheets, also known as 'tip-ins' for Adrian to complete for his new stand-alone book, Shroud, coming out in the UK on 27 February, 2025 and in the US in June
Adrian has spent the day at Goldsboro Books signing their special editions of Days of Shattered Faith.
There are only 1000 of these beautiful hard back signed and numbered books with coloured "fore edge" page image printing.
They will be released on 5 December, 2024
Adrian was very excited to learn that he has been awarded the Most Popular Foreign Writer Award in the highly prestigeous 35th Galaxy Awards announced on Saturday 28 Septermber 2024 in Chengdu, China.
Many thanks go to the Chinese Science Fiction and Fantasy community and Adrian hopes they will enjoy several more stories being translated into Chinese (see below for more news from China!)
An exciting new arrival at Portia House this week was this beautiful copy of Kehuan Shijie (Science Fiction World), a monthly science fiction magazine published in Chengdu, China.
It was wonderful to meet Chinese fans at the recent Glasgow WorldCon and Adrian hopes that Chinese readers will enjoy reading all the science fiction featured in it.
This month, it has a translation of Adrian's "Cage Of Souls", which inspired the cover artwork, and includes an interview with Adrian featured in its pages.
Stanisław Lem's novella, "The Inquest" from his 1968 science fiction short story collection, "Opowieści o pilocie Pirxie" ("Tales of Pirx the Pilot") is being adapted by Adrian for the screen.
Space pilot, Pirx, takes a covert mission to the rings of Saturn and an accident happens which almost kills the entire crew.
Is Pirx responsible? Or was it the robots? Only "The Inquest" can decide.
Adrian has just learned that he has been inducted into the European Science Fiction Societies'
The awards took place in Rotterdam at Erasmuscon, the 2024 EuroCon on 19 August 2024.
He wishes to thank everyone who voted for him and nominated him for this wonderful European award
An exciting new book is coming soon from Warhammer.
This anthology of short stories opens with a novella-length tale by Adrian which finds Fusil-Major Rosforth consigned to an unlikely friendship after a career-ending injury.
The hard-nosed Dawnbringer must now be carried into battle by Slobda, a vicious man-eating ogor drafted into Sigmar’s service, and their problems only mount when the Skaven spill forth into Ghyran in their millions. Rosforth and Slobda find themselves responsible for a desperate band of survivors fleeing the teeming hordes of plague-ridden ratmen, and they’ll put their partnership to the test getting everyone to safety.
On the Shoulders of Giants and Other Stories also includes other tales from the Mortal Realms penned by Noah Van Nguyen, Liane Merciel, and more.
For those new to Warhammer, this should be entirely approachable as a fantasy story, and a good introduction to the setting.
And also – because how often does an author have this opportunity – here’s a picture of some Warhammer figures representing the main characters of ‘On The Shoulders of Giants’ painted up by Adrian himself.
The cover is out for the third Tyrant Philosophers book! Another masterpiece from Joe Wilson.
Days of Shattered Faith can be read independently or as part of the series. Diplomacy, politics and war.
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