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
Released - 26 May 2026
Adrian’s first ever graphic novel is out! Salvation’s Child is a prequel story in the universe of the Final Architecture, set back when fugitive humanity was being chased by the Architects from world to world. The story has some amazing art by Mike Collins, with colours and lettering by Simon and Pippa Bowland. This is Adrian’s first work with the comics studio Cosmic Lighthouse, but won’t be the last!
Zmajkon, Serbia
20-24 May 2026
Adrian has just returned from Zmajkon in Nis, Serbia, alongside author CC Humphreys. This was Adrian’s second visit, and he had a great time meeting the Serbian fans following the translation of his first fantasy work into the language. The Tiger and the Wolf joins the Children series in that language.
Adrian was expertly interviewed by Ivan Jovanovich
Adrian could not be happier to find that Shroud has been shortlisted for the Hugo Awards 2026 Best Novel category.
He is so pleased that people are enjoying his new First Contact science fiction novel.
Thank you for voting and nominating this book for the awards!
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 Children of Strife Story
"Marduk's Long War"
It’s not often that a whole and coherent piece of book gets cut – usually it’s just bits and pieces here and there which aren’t of much use on their own. With Children of Strife, however, there was an entire chapter that, while perfectly fine on its own, just slowed down the pacing of the book and so ended up on the cutting room floor.
As a warning, if you’ve not read Strife then this won’t make much sense and also contains spoilers! This is a series of vignettes from Marduk/Hartland as experienced by the ark-ship dwellers over multiple generations, taking us from their initial colonisation and showing how the society was encountered by Alis and the crew later on.
So, if you've finished Children of Strife, and want more, please enjoy....
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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