Adrian Tchaikovsky

Stand Alone Novellas

Time has moved on for Lynesse Fourth Daughter, now sister to the new regent and a magician in her own right. Meaning that she understands the ancient technology her world is based on.

Time has not moved on for Nyr Illim Tevitch, court magician of Lannesite, tutor to Lyn’s children, a man from another age and civilization left behind by a world that is constantly changing.

The two of them, estranged, are brought back together by a brigand uprising led by a new sorcerer commanding ancient machines. But when Lyn and Nyr investigate, they find he has unearthed worse things than a few decaying engines.

The sequel to Hugo Nominated novella, Elder Race.

Engines of Reason

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A junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe.

Lynesse Fourth-Daughter in a questing hero, seeking the aid of the wizard Nyrgoth Elder to defeat a demon whose malign influence is growing at the edge of her mother’s kingdom.

Nyr is an anthropologist sent to study Lynesse’s post-colonial society and now abandoned by his home, wrestling with depression and absolutely forbidden under any circumstances from interfering with the locals.

Nyr lives in a world of scientific rationality. Lynesse lives in a world of myth and magic. What, then, is the demon…?

This is a fantasy/scifi novella

Hugo Awards Finalist 2022

Ursula Le Guin Award Shortlist 2022

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Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky's Made Things is dark fantasy tale of how the most unlikely characters may become the most heroic.

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Coppelia is a puppeteer. Coppelia is a thief. Living in a city ruled by vastly powerful mage-lords, perhaps its not surprising her partners in crime are animated dolls. The homunculi are not of her making, though and they have infiltrated the city for their own reasons. Reasons put under threat when they and she are thrown into a collision course with the wizards themselves.

This is a fantasy novella.

A imaginative mystery to be solved, which Adrian Tchaikovsky, a master of the unexpected, manages to entice and string you along, until you don’t want, but need to know the answers.

Occult investigator Walther Cohen is called to a remote and mysterious house to search for a missing academic.

This special edition of my long short story is part of BOTH publishing’s dyslexia-friendly series.

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