Adrian Tchaikovsky, Author Pyr $16 (415p) ISBN 978-1-61614-192-9
Longtime epic fantasy readers will find many familiar elements in this intriguing debut. There’s the peaceful, vulnerable land, in this case the Lowlands, threatened by the Mongol-like Wasp Empire. The lone man who sees the danger is unwilling
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Adrian Tchaikovsky, Author . Pyr $16 (467p) ISBN 978-1-61614-195-0
Tchaikovsky returns to the caste-haunted insect-themed world of 2010’s Empire in Black and Gold
, as the inapt kinden realize that their natural gifts and old knowledge are no longer sufficient to allow them to dominate their apt cousins, who...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky, Author . Pyr $16 (301p) ISBN 978-1-61614-199-8
Tchaikovsky's third Shadows of the Apt novel (after 2010's Dragonfly Falling
) finds his steampunk-flavored sword and sorcery world, once dominated by the magic-wielding inapt, now threatened by the insatiable and technologically apt Wasp...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky, Pyr, $16 paper (324p) ISBN 978-1-61614-239-1
Tchaikovsky's fourth Shadows of the Apt installment is that rarest of gems in series fantasy: an intermediate book in which genuinely decisive events occur. Despite the best efforts of resistance leader Stenwald and his allies, the Wasp Empire seems
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Tor.com, $4.99 e-book (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8835-3
In this brilliant work by Tchaikovsky (Spoils of War), what begins as a humorous send-up of fantasy quests turns toward something more philosophical but no less wonderful. After a band of human adventurers vanquishes a nest of giant spiders, the...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Pan MacMillan (Trafalgar Sq., dist.), $14.95 trade paper (590p) ISBN 978-1-4472-3457-9
Tchaikovsky (the Shadows of the Apt series) opens a new epic fantasy series, Echoes of the Fall, with this brilliantly conceived and executed shape-changer Bronze Age saga featuring a heartbreaking heroine. Maniye is torn between her Wolf heritage...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Tor.com, $3.99 e-book (176p) ISBN 978-1-250-23298-4
Thieves, mages, and miniature golems run afoul of each other in this charming novella set in a steampunk fantasy world. Coppelia is an orphaned puppet-maker trying to eke a living through pickpocketing and other petty crimes in a grimy,...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Orbit, $28 (608p) ISBN 978-0-316-70587-5
Tchaikovsky again shines with his suspenseful second Final Architecture space opera (after Shards of Earth). The Architects, moon-size alien entities who destroyed Earth 50 years prior, have returned, and Idris, a genetically enhanced Intermediary...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Orbit, $19.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-316-57897-4
Imprisoned dissident scientists struggle to understand alien ecology in this mind-expanding planetary romp from Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Tchaikovsky (Service Model). Arton Daghdev, captured by the totalitarian Earth government called the...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Tordotcom, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-29028-1
In this clever postapocalyptic adventure, Tchaikovsky (the Children of Time series) puts a pair of out-of-place survivors on a satirical journey to replace what they lost when human civilization collapsed around them. The Wonk hopes to identify...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Head of Zeus, $27.99 (608p) ISBN 978-1-03-590138-8
Set in the world of City of Last Chances, this grim and exceptional look at fantasy warfare from Tchaikovsky feels like M*A*S*H written by an uncharacteristically somber Terry Pratchett. Maric Jack, the latest unwilling inductee into the Palleseen...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Orbit, $29 (624p) ISBN 978-0-316-70592-9
Alien races and warring political factions scramble to defeat the planet-destroying entities called Architects in the epic but somewhat murky finale to Tchaikovsky’s Final Architecture trilogy (after Eyes of the Void). When ancient and irascible...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Head of Zeus, $29.99 (496p) ISBN 978-1-80110-842-3
The theft of a rare magical amulet becomes the catalyst for revolution in the shady city of Ilmar in this well wrought fantasy from Arthur C. Clarke award winner Tchaikovsky (Children of Memory). A high-ranking official of the Palleseen occupation,...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Solaris, $29.99 (208p) ISBN 978-1-78618-879-3
This fun, creepy tribute to the works of C.S. Lewis from Tchaikovsky (Children of Memory) finds children’s television presenter Felix “Harry” Bodie having a tough time. He can’t escape the shadow of his grandmother, Mary, author of the wildly...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Head of Zeus, $15.95 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-80024-893-9
Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Tchaikovsky (Children of Time) takes readers inside the mind of a weaponized bioengineered animal in this imaginative triumph, the first in a series. From the opening lines—“My name is Rex. I am a Good Dog”—Tchaikovsky...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Pan Macmillan, $19.95 trade paper (544p) ISBN 978-1-5098-3023-7
This well-wrought second installment in Tchaikovsky’s Echoes of the Fall epic fantasy series (after The Tiger and the Wolf) focuses on two major threats to the realistically magical world his shape-shifting tribes inhabit. Loud Thunder, mightiest...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Solaris, $30 (144p) ISBN 978-1-78618-528-0
Tchaikovsky (Elder Race) takes a sharp look in this twisty social satire at a world in which, due to genetic modification, the 1%, now called ogres, literally tower over the 99%. At over six feet tall, Torquell, mischievous human son of a village...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Tordotcom, $14.99 trade paper (208p) ISBN 978-1-250-76872-8
Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Tchaikovsky (Children of Time) wows with this inventive and empathetic story of courage, science, and magic. Though Lynesse is the mere Fourth Daughter of the Royal Line of Lannesite, she knows she’s capable of more...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Orbit, $28 (592p) ISBN 978-0-316-70585-1
Tchaikovsky (Children of Time) launches his Final Architecture series with a dazzlingly suspenseful space opera. A colossal, sentient entity known as an Architect rips Earth apart into a flower shape. As the remnants of humanity flee to colonize...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Tor.com, $15.99 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-250-76639-7
Tchaikovsky’s deliciously creepy sequel to The Expert System’s Brother showcases just how alien other worlds can be. In the decade since Handry was Severed from his village and assumed leadership of the Order of Cain, a society of fellow outcasts,...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Solaris, $29.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-78108-874-6
Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Tchaikovsky (Children of Time) makes the end of the world a personal affair in this humorous, sharp-edged novel. The unnamed narrator is the last temporal warrior to survive the Causality War, fought via the...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Orbit, $17.99 trade paper (608p) ISBN 978-0-316-70580-6
Tchaikovsky (Children of Ruin) examines alternate dimensions and speculative evolution in this tropey, entertaining sci-fi adventure that’s both outrageously bizarre and utterly convincing. Cryptid hunter Lee Pryor receives a call from her...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky. Solaris, $30 (208p) ISBN 978-1-78108-848-7
Arthur C. Clarke Award–winner Tchaikovsky (Children of Ruin) transports readers to a bleak dystopia in this powerful story of class conflict and climate crisis. In the not too distant future, the jungles of equatorial Africa have been reduced to...
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Edited by Alex Shvartsman. CAEZIK SF & Fantasy, $17.99 trade paper (300p) ISBN 978-1-64710-110-7
In this impressive collection, a star-studded lineup of 17 authors assembled by Shvartsman (Kakistocracy) raise angst-ridden questions about human-AI collaboration. In “Silicon Hearts,” by Adrian Tchaikovsky, a nonsense-spewing writerbot is awarded...
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