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

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Podcast News

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. 

And on The Writing Worlds Adrian talks about the concept of deep time in worldbuilding with Emily Inkpen and Chris Gregory

Arthur C. Clarke Award: Shortlist News

 Amazing news! Service Model has now been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award!

Adrian is thrilled to be amongst an amazing cohort of authors and is over the moon to be considered for this award.

Locus Award Nomination News

More exciting news arrived at Portia House in the shape of two finalist places for Service Model and Alien Clay in the 2025 Locus Awards for Best Novel!


Adrian is honoured to be amongst such a stellar roundup of talented writers and amazed to be a double finalist for this award.

Check out all the books and nominations at the link below


2025 Locus Awards: Finalists

The winners will be announced on 21 June 2025 in Oakland, California, USA

Award Winning News

Eastercon, the UK's annual science fiction and fantasy convention held in Belfast this year, was a remarkable event for me. I was delighted that Saturation Point won the 

BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction. 

Also that weekend at Norwescon, one of the largest science fiction and fantasy conventions in the US, Alien Clay received the Special Citation in the Philip K Dick Awards. 

In addition, last year at Erasmuscon, which was also the 2024 Eurocon (European Convention for fantasy, science fiction and horror), I was inducted into the Hall of Fame and awarded the Prix Européen De Science-Fiction for Best Author. They tracked me down at Eastercon this weekend and gave me this rather beautiful wooden trophy. 

All in all, it's been an amazing weekend for recognition of my work in addition to which I had a fantastic time at the the Eastercon convention in Belfast.

A heartfelt thank you goes to everyone in the science fiction and fantasy community around the world who continue to enjoy reading my work and to everyone who votes and takes part in all these awards. 

Hugo Award 2025: Finalist News

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.


Hugo Awards 2025: Finalists 

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."

2023 Hugo Award Statement

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