Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Short Stories

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The Best of Adrian Tchaikovsky: Short Story Collection

A collection of 37 short stories from the award-winning Adrian Tchaikovsky, covering all corners of the genre from science-fiction to fantasy to the plain weird.  This collection draws from across the breadth of Adrian's career, from the depths of space through broken futures, from the haunted shadows of the modern day to fantastical magic worlds, including the author’s commentary on the selection.  


Dust jacket illustration by Alison Sampson

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CONTENTS 

(scrollable)

Science Fiction I—Broken Tomorrows


    Children of Dagon

    Red Sky in the Morning

    21st Century Girl

    Where the Dead People Are

    Oannes, from the Flood

    Charlie’s Ant

    The Fall of Lady Sealight

    The Mouse Ran Down


Fantasy I—Down and Dirty


    The Roar of the Crowd

    The Binds that Tie

    Coat Like Bright Fire

    Dress Rehearsal

    The Face of the King

    Ancien Régime


Weirdness I—Reality Gone Wrong


    Crossed Gates

    Sandra and Me

    Family Business

    Difficult Times

    Not a Cat Person

    The Coming of the Cold


Weirdness II—The Casebook of Walther Cohen


    Where the Brass Band Plays

    Pipework

    The House on the Old Cliffs

    Lost Soldiers

    The Dissipation Club


Fantasy II—High Magic


    Fragile Creation

    The Final Conjuration

    The Language of Flowers

    This Blessed Union

    Precious Little Things

    The Groppler’s Harvest


Science Fiction II—Final Frontier


    Low Energy Economy

    Speak, Friend, And Enter

    Gods of the Ice Planet

    Wars of Worldcraft

    The Collectors

    Goblin Autumn

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2144 And All That

21st Century Girl

Ancien Regime

A Taste for Lightning

A Taste for Lightning

Beep!

Bones (Shadows of the Apt)


Care

Care

Charlie’s Ant

Charlie’s Ant

Coat Like White Fire

Crossed Gates

Difficult Times

Donald

Dress Rehearsal

Family Business


Family Business

Feast and Famine

Feast and Famine

Fragile Creations

Goblin Autumn


Gods of the Ice Planet

Good Taste

Good Taste

Irrational Numbers

Lost Soldiers (Walther Cohen)

Lost to their own Devices

Low Energy Economy

Low Energy Economy

Moving Targets

Not A Cat Person

Not A Cat Person

Oannes, from the Flood

Oannes, from the Flood

Old Blood (Shadows of the Apt)

Pipework (Walther Cohen)

Precious Little Things

Precious Little Things

Raised in Darkness

Rapture

Red Sky in the Morning

Saint George and Saint Giles

Sandra and Me

Season of Sacrifice 

    and Resurrection

Season of Sacrifice 

    and Resurrection

Serpent Dawn 

    (comic with Eugene Smith)

Shadow Hunter 

    (Shadows of the Apt)

Shadow Hunter 

    (Shadows of the Apt)

Silicon Hearts

Something Rotten

Sword and Circle 

    (Shadows of the Apt)

The Artificial Man

The Binds that Tie

The Branch Line Repairman

The Collectors

The Coming of the Cold

The Dissipation Club 

    (Walther Cohen)

The Dissipation Club 

    (Walther Cohen)

The Electric Eye of the 

    Silver God

The Face of the King

The Fall of Lady Sealight

The Final Conjuration


The Girls from Humaji


The God-Shark

The God-Shark

The Groppler’s Harvest

The House on the Old Cliffs 

    (Walther Cohen)

The House on the Old Cliffs 

    (Walther Cohen)

The Indecipherables 

    (with Justina Robson)

The Language of Flowers

The Mouse Ran Down

The Mouse Ran Down

The Roar of the Crowd

The Sun in the Morning 

    (Shadows of the Apt)

The World Wound

This Blessed Union

Wars of Worldcraft

Where the Brass Band Plays 

    (Walther Cohen)

Where the Dead People Are

Feast and Famine

(online)

Summer’s End

White Dwarf  #478

Unbound Conquests

Short Changes

The Alchemy Press Book of 

    Ancient Wonders

Feast and Famine

Short Changes

Looking Landwards

Shoreline of Infinity 11 ½

Short Changes

Breakout

New Scientist

The Private Life of Elder Things

Now We Are Ten

The Alchemy Press Book of 

    Urban Mythic

Short Changes

Solaris Rising 2

Feast and Famine

Tales of Eve

Once Upon A Parsec : 

    The Book of Alien Fairy Tales

Aliens: The Truth is Coming

Now I Lay Me Down To Reap

Feast and Famine

The Private Life of Elder Things

The 13 Ghosts of Christmas

Paradox

Consolation Songs

Levar Burton Reads

The Private Life of Elder Things

Hauntings

Short Changes

Avatars Inc

The Best SF of the Year 6

Evil is a Matter of Perspective

Vivisepulture

(Convention special)

(online)

Inferno 6

Feast and Famine

Burning Brightly

Tales of the Nun and Dragon

Unbound 2

Horror for the Holidays


The Private Life of Elder Things


European Monsters


Grimdark Magazine #1


Knee Deep in Grit


Future SF Digest (online)

Shakespeare vs Cthulhu

Legends: Stories in Honour 

    of David Gemmell

Feast and Famine

Eve of War

The Private Life of Elder Things

2001: An Odyssey In Words

Winter Tales

Dead But Dreaming 2


Feast and Famine


This Twisted Earth


The King Must Die

Dark Currents

Two Hundred and Twenty-One 

    Baker Streets

The Girl at the End of the 

    World, Book II

Feast and Famine

Short Changes

Unexpected Journeys

Fantasy-Faction Anthology


Tbc


What A Long Strange Trip 

    it’s Been

Myriad Lands Volume 2

Carnage: After The End V2

The Time Traveller’s Almanac

Feast and Famine

Feast and Famine


Journeys

Wicked Women

Stories of Hope and Wonder

The Alchemy Press Book of 

    Urban Mythic 2

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Nature.com

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Black Library

Self pub

Alchemy


Newcon

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Shoreline of Infinity

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New Scientist

Alchemy

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Alchemy


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Fox Spirit

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Tickety Boo

Siren’s Call

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Alchemy

Spectral

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Independent

Levar Burton Reads

Alchemy

Newcon

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Night Shade

Grimdark Magazine

Anarchy

Novacon

Tor.com

Black Library

Newcon

Newcon

Fox Spirit

Grim Oak

Miskatonic River


Alchemy


Fox Spirit


Grimdark Magazine


Grimdark Magazine


Future SF Digest

Snowbooks

Newcon


Newcon

Fox Spirit

Alchemy

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Fox Spirit

Miskatonic River


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Six Minutes to 

Midnight

Grimdark 

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Abaddon


Fox Spirit


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FFP


BOTH


Immanion


Guardbridge

Siren’s Call

Head of Zeus

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Fox Spirit

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