Adrian Tchaikovsky is an award-winning and highly acclaimed science fiction and fantasy author with works published at home in the UK and internationally.
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Book cover reveals are always exciting and this cover is particularly lovely as it encompasses a new Spanish translation of Adrian's novella, Ogres, by Cristina Macía. The stunning cover art is by Borja González (winner of the National Comic Book Award).
Ogres are bigger than you.
Ogres are stronger than you.
Ogres rule the world.
This sci-fi book explores a future dystopia about the loss of civil liberties, racism, war, and revolution.
Ogres was shortlisted for the BSFA, BFA and the Locus Awards in 2023 and will be published in Spanish by Dolmen Editorial soon!
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.
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
The winners will be announced on 21 June 2025 in Oakland, California, USA
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.
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.
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."
Buzzing into Portia House this week was the exciting new cover of Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky which is due for release on 5 June 2025 both in the UK and the US.
The third in the "Dogs of War" series, this long awaited book covers a cry for "Help!" from the desperate denizens of Earth to the men, beasts and Bees working together well on Mars.
However, after a triumphal return to the blue-green world of their ancestors, things do not turn out quite as expected!
Shroud (End Feb release, standalone novel) – Shroud is utterly hostile to human life: dark, freezing, toxic and with an ecology that screams on every band of the electromagnetic spectrum. Meaning if you crash on it, there’s no way you can signal your ship to let them know you’re still alive… for now.
The Hungry Gods (August release, standalone novella, Terrible Worlds: Innovation) – after human society finally falls over, those great genius billionaires come back from space to lord it over the ruins. Hilarity ensues.
Bee Speaker (June release, novel, Dogs of War book 3) – What Bees Did Next, how Mars worked out after Earth fell. Projecting the timeline of Dogs of War and Bear Head into a dystopian post-tech future where a Martian invasion might be the only way to save the Earth.
Lives of Bitter Rain (October release, novella, Tyrant Philosophers 3.5) – A novella detailing the early career of Angilly in the world of Pallaseen espionage and dirty tricks.
There should be some more short fiction as well, but in particular I have a story in the upcoming anthology Of Shadows, Stars and Sabers that I’m particularly fond of. This is ‘Holy Fools’ and – while it can be read on its own – tells of what Yasnic was doing between City of Last Chances and House of Open Wounds.
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