Books by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adrian Tchaikovsky is the multi-award winning writer of fantasy and sci fi works including the Shadows of the Apt and Children of Time series.
“Cage of Souls uses the ‘dying Earth’ trope: we are in the final city on Earth, during what we might term as a slow apocalypse. Everything is dying, everything is running down. There’s still a lot of technology that we would all consider hugely advanced, but he doesn’t explain how any of it works; in fact, the characters don’t know, and that sense of decline is what informs the book. Humanity is dying out. The rest of the planet, however, may not be, not just yet anyhow.” Read more...
The Best Science Fiction of 2020
Tom Hunter, Journalist
Interviews with Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Best Hard Science Fiction Books, recommended by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Hard sci fi books build fantastical worlds underpinned by rigorous science. This constraint actually provokes originality, explains multi-award winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky. He talks us through his five favourites, and shows how every story exploring science must also explore politics, philosophy and humanity.
Interviews where books by Adrian Tchaikovsky were recommended
The Best Science Fiction of 2020, recommended by Tom Hunter
Sci fi is booming, says Tom Hunter, the director of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction, as he discusses their 2020 shortlist: six novels that embrace classic sci fi narratives, while subverting or reimagining them for a contemporary audience.
