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Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Last night was the inaugural Speakies - uk audiobook awards, for which Bee Speaker was nominated. We didn’t take it but thanks to Gabrielle Nellis-Pain and Rod Hallett my co-narrators for getting us on the shortlist.
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Northodox have a sale on now for all of their books, including my fantasy murder mystery The Executioner's Blade. Go grab a copy before it goes out of print in January!
www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Just amazing art from Ian.
Signing giclee prints of the artwork what I did for @aptshadow.bsky.social’s ‘Terrible Worlds’ anthology/the book itself
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Amazing Chinese cover for House of Open Wounds (I think the interior art is for a different story)
Front cover of SF World Translations Dec 2025, featuring the first part of @aptshadow.bsky.social's House of Open Wounds. I assume the interior art shown on the contents page is also for HoOW.

Source: xerosoul weibo.com/5989953755/5... , xhslink.com/o/4B9McTEdM46

Artist is 景韵文化 (Jingyun Culture).
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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What's your favourite story where we see tech and science as magic through the point of view of primitive protagonists?

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Book review – The Hungry Gods
In his novella, The Hungry Gods, Adrian Tchaikovsky writes another of story in his trademark style, set in the future in a world ravaged by environmental disaster. The world has descended back into…
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November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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I also just published a long overdue review of Days of Shattered Faith by @aptshadow.bsky.social. An exceptional and utterly captivating fantasy novel with some brilliantly damaged characters, this was an incredible read that I cannot recommend enough.
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Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher: Head of Zeus (Audiobook – 5 December 2024) Series: The Tyrant Philosophers – Book Three Length: 21 hours and 39 minutes My Rating: 5 out 5 stars Amazon One of the current top authors of …
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November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
At’The Word for the World’ exhibition of Le Guin’s maps and it includes what reads as a very irate note to her cover artist about how a dragon should look.
November 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Also available for pre-order from @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social .
November 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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“A brilliantly trippy clash of minds that’s as precisely measured as the wraps of illicit powder these two are caning — and resonant enough to recall classic psychological two-handers like Sleuth.”

Evening Standard gives GAME
★ ★ ★ ★

Out in UK cinemas today.
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Slay the spire post: today’s daily is one of those with so much strength gain the end fight feels like bullying.
November 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
People kickstarting Christmas-themed games always boggles me. I hope the people backing feel appropriately festive when they deliver in April 2027 or something.
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Went to Thought Bubble over the weekend and have been reading up a storm with new graphic novels this week. Some particular notables I picked up:
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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🪐Children of Strife 🪐 Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social
The only spiders I would like in my bookshelf are these ones. Problem is, then I become emotionally attached to them but hey ho, I'm looking forward to Kern's rivals 💜
Publishes March 2026
#Gifted by
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November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I invite people to imagine how many times I mis-spelled ‘serendipitous’ during the writing of this book.
One of the many great bits in @aptshadow.bsky.social's Stterseer's Ruin is that the Seraphon temple-ships have names that go very hard; Wings of Serendipitous Fire, and Celestial Eye of Tepok.
Coming up with appropriately pretentious ship names for the Aeldari was one of the most fun things about writing this.
November 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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The NAP COMIX Kickstarter closes TOMORROW so if you've been thinking about pre-ordering my new book please do it soon!

It includes the 1st year's worth of comics from the webcomic, as well as LOADS of exclusive content.

Please take a look here: tinyurl.com/napcomixks

Thank you! (& please share!)
November 19, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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Another excerpt from Children Of Memory by @aptshadow.bsky.social.

I'm really close to the end now, and I'm going to have a lot to say about this series then, but for now I just want to say that Tchaikovsky is an expert at the raw art of putting words in order to craft a sentence.
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A new arrival from Subterranean Press - with a beautiful cover by @alisonsampson.bsky.social - this collects the vast majority of my short fiction to date, along with commentary on particularly noteworthy entries.
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Patreon is currenlty a large income source as I try to get this whole "writing regularly" thing off the ground
(had mental health crisis in family, now slowly digging myself out. With my fingernails hahhaha sob)
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Today, Theo reviews Adrian Tchaikovsky's climate-change sci-fi SATURATION POINT:

"Tchaikovsky’s writing is as entertainingly fluid as ever"

Read more: tinyurl.com/a9k55ket

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November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Has anyone tried the app version of the 7 Wonders boardgame that's available for android/apple? if so: (1) can you set friends-only games (2) can you play cross-platform android and apple together?
November 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Had a grand time at Thought Bubble (comicon based out o9f Harrogate, very comics focused).
November 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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The Broken Binding, stretching the spooky season release window well into Christmas ;)

Such a good lineup of authors in this one.

#BookMail #BookSky #BestNewHorror

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November 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM