Adrian Tchaikovsky

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  • Bibliography:
    59 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2008
  • Latest Book:
    August 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Children of Time

1 - Children of Time (Jun-2015)
2 - Children of Ruin (May-2019)
3 - Children of Memory (Feb-2023)

Echoes of the Fall

1 - The Tiger and the Wolf (Sep-2016)
2 - The Bear and the Serpent (May-2017)
3 - The Hyena and the Hawk (Apr-2018)

The Final Architects Trilogy

1 - Shards of Earth (Aug-2021)
2 - Eyes of the Void (May-2022)
3 - Lords of Uncreation (May-2023)

Shadows of the Apt

1 - Empire in Black and Gold (Jul-2008)
2 - Dragonfly Falling (Apr-2009)
3 - Blood of the Mantis (Aug-2009)
4 - Salute the Dark (Feb-2010)
5 - The Scarab Path (May-2011)
6 - The Sea Watch (Feb-2011)
7 - Heirs of the Blade (Oct-2011)
8 - The Air War (Aug-2012)
9 - War Master's Gate (Aug-2013)
10 - The Seal of the Worm (Jul-2014)

Tales of the Apt

1 - Spoils of War (Jul-2016)
2 - A Time for Grief (Apr-2017)

Book List in Order: 59 titles

  • Empire in Black and Gold

    Shadows of the Apt - 1

    The city states of the Lowlands have lived in peace for decades, bastions of civilization, prosperity and sophistication, protected by treaties, trade and a belief in the reasonable nature of their neighbors. But meanwhile, in far-off corners, the W...

  • Dragonfly Falling

    Shadows of the Apt - 2

    Dragonfly Falling is the second book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Children of Time.Every hero must be tested . . .The Wasp Empire’s armies are...

  • Blood of the Mantis

    Shadows of the Apt - 3

    Driven by the ghosts of the Darakyon, the seer Achaeos has tracked the stolen Shadow Box to the marsh-town of Jerez â€" but he has only days before this magical artefact is lost to him forever. Meanwhile, the forces of the Empire are mustering for t...

  • Salute the Dark

    Shadows of the Apt - 4

    The vampire sorcerer Uctebri has at last got his hands on the Shadow Box and can finally begin his dark ritual -- a ritual that the Wasp-kinden Emperor believes will grant him immortality -- but Uctebri has his own plans both for the Emperor and the ...

  • The Sea Watch

    Shadows of the Apt - 6

    The Sea Watch is the sixth book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky.Danger lurks beneath dark waters . . . A shadow is falling over Collegium. Despite the tenuous peace, Stenwold Maker knows that t...

  • The Scarab Path

    Shadows of the Apt - 5

    The war with the Wasp Empire has ended in a bitter stalemate, and Collegium has nothing to show for it but wounded veterans. Cheerwell Maker finds herself crippled in ways no doctor can mend, haunted by ghosts of the past that she cannot appease, see...

  • Heirs of the Blade

    Shadows of the Apt - 7

    Heirs of the Blade is the seventh book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky.The greatest foe is the enemy within . . .Tynisa is on the run, but she cannot escape the demons of her own mind. Amidst t...

  • The Air War

    Shadows of the Apt - 8

    The Air War is the eighth book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky.An empress demands her birthright . . . All is in turmoil as the world moves towards war. In Solarno, spies eye one another and re...

  • The Alchemy Press Book of Ancient Wonders

    When we think of a wonder, our minds go most often to the great buildings of the past - the pyramids, the Taj Mahal, Stonehenge - but the human mind can make almost anything wondrous. We walk with wonders every day, through the power of curiosity and...



  • War Master's Gate

    Shadows of the Apt - 9

    SHADOWS OF THE APT: BOOK NINE Relentlessly advancing towards Collegium, the Empire is again seeking to break down its walls. The mighty imperial armies have learnt from their failures, and Empress Seda will brook no weakness in her soldiers. However...

  • The Bloody Deluge

    A year ago, civilisation died, drowning and choking on its own blood in the brutal scourge of the Cull.Eking out a living on the newly primitive land, British-born biochemist Katy Lewkowitz finds a new life as a doctor among the small communities spr...

  • The Seal of the Worm

    Shadows of the Apt - 10

    Seal of the Worm is the tenth and final book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky.An ancient enemy stirs once more . . .The Empire has vanquished its enemies at last, but at a terrible price. With h...

  • Guns of the Dawn

    Guns of the Dawn is a pacey, gripping fantasy of war and magic, from Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author, Adrian Tchaikovsky.â€One of the best books I've ever read’ â€" Peter Newman, author of The VagrantThe first casualty of war is truth . . .F...

  • Children of Time

    Children of Time - 1

    A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome it's dangers? WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH? The last remnants ...

  • Monstrous Little Voices

  • Spoils of War

    Tales of the Apt - 1

    Tales of the Apt is a companion series to the best-selling decalogy Shadows of the Apt, gathering together short stories from disparate places and supplementing them with a wealth of new tales written especially for the series. Together, they combine...

  • The Tiger and the Wolf

    Echoes of the Fall - 1

    The first in the Echoes of the Fall series, The Tiger and the Wolf is an epic fantasy novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Novel.â€One of the most interesting and accomplished writers i...

  • A Time for Grief

    Tales of the Apt - 2

    A new collection of stories that shed fresh light on the dangerous and complex world of the insect-kinden, including three that are previously unpublished. The Tales of the Apt series provides a different perspective on the fantastic realm first e...

  • The Bear and the Serpent

    Echoes of the Fall - 2

    The Bear and the Serpent is the second book in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s epic fantasy trilogy, Echoes of the Fall, following The Tiger and the Wolf.â€Addictively brilliant’ â€" John Gwynne on The Tiger and the WolfAs the south is in turmoil, an old t...



  • Dogs of War

    A bio-engineered dog fights for its life and its right to life. From the Arthur C. Clark Award-winning author of CHILDREN OF TIME.

    My name is Rex. I am a good dog.

    Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristl...

  • Ironclads

    Scions have no limits. Scions do not die. And Scions do not disappear. Sergeant Ted Regan has a problem. A son of one of the great corporate families, a Scion, has gone missing at the front. He should have been protected by his Ironclad -- the let...

  • For Love of Distant Shores

    In a narrative reminiscent of Phileas Fogg meets Professor Challenger, For Love of Distant Shores features the exploits of scientist-cum-adventurer Doctor Ludweg Phinagler, as recorded by his (semi-)faithful assistant, Fosse.   A maverick academi...

  • The Hyena and the Hawk

    Echoes of the Fall - 3

    They face a hunger that could consume the gods themselves From the depths of myth an ancient enemy has returned: the Plague People, whose very presence obliterates whole villages; whose terror destroys minds. In their wake, nothing is left of the ...

  • The Expert System's Brother

    Bestselling British master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky brings readers a new, mind-expanding science fantasia in The Expert System's Brother After an unfortunate accident, Handry is forced to wander a world he doesn’t understand, search...

  • Redemption's Blade

    Ten years ago, the renegade demigod known as the Kinslayer returned. His armies of monsters issued from the pits of the earth, spearheaded by his brutal Yorughan soldiers. He won every battle, leaving burnt earth and corruption behind. Thrones topple...

  • The Scent of Tears

    For the first time in print, Adrian Tchaikovsky has opened up the realm of the Apt, as featured in his best-selling Shadow of the Apt decalogy, to a carefully selected cast of fellow writers, inviting them to do their best and their worst within t...

  • Walking to Aldebaran

    I’M LOST. I’M SCARED. AND THERE’S SOMETHING HORRIBLE IN HERE. My name is Gary Rendell. I’m an astronaut. When they asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, “astronaut, please!” I dreamed astronaut, I worked astronaut,...

  • Children of Ruin

    Children of Time - 2

    The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists...

  • Once Upon a Parsec

    Have you ever wondered what the fairy tales of alien cultures are like? For hundreds of years scholars and writers have collected and retold folk and fairy stories from around our world. They are not alone. On distant planets alien chroniclers hav...



  • Cage of Souls

    Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author.
    The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,00...

  • Made Things

    Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky's Made Things is dark fantasy tale of how the most unlikely characters may become the most heroic. Making friends has never been so important. Welcome to Fountains Parish--a cesspit of trade and crime...

  • Precious Little Things

    A prequel to the magical novella Made Things, Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Precious Little Things" is a Tor.com Original short story offering a new perspective while set in the same action-packed gaslamp world.At the Publisher's request, this title is being...

  • Firewalkers

    FIREWALKERS ARE BRAVE FIREWALKERS ARE RESOURCEFUL FIREWALKERS ARE EXPENDABLE The Earth is burning. Nothing can survive at the Anchor; not without water and power. But the ultra-rich, waiting for their ride off the dying Earth? They can buy water. And...

  • The Doors of Eden

    From the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Doors of Eden is an extraordinary feat of the imagination and a page-turning adventure about parallel universes and the monsters that they hide. They thought we were safe. They were w...

  • The Tales of Catt & Fisher

    Four new tales of Doctors Catt and Fisher… Scholars, shopkeepers, collectors… aficionados. Obtainers of rare antiquities; relic hunters who can’t resist a lead, even when it takes them into terrible danger. There’s always an opportunity to be...

  • The Expert System's Champion

    In Adrian Tchaikovsky's The Expert System's Champion, sometimes the ones you hate are the only ones that can save you. It's been ten years since Handry was wrenched away from his family and friends, forced to wander a world he no longe...

  • One Day All This Will Be Yours

    The bold new work from award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky - a smart, funny tale of time-travel and paradox Welcome to the end of time. It’s a perfect day. Nobody remembers how the Causality War started. Really, there’s no-one to rememb...

  • Shards of Earth

    The Final Architects Trilogy - 1

    The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all.The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one c...

  • Elder Race

    "A Ursula Le Guin-like grace... Ten out of 10." -- New York TimesIn Adrian Tchaikovsky's Elder Race, 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 is the lowly ...



  • Day of Ascension

    Exciting new Warhammer 40,000 novel from Adrian Tchaikovsky/On the forge world of Morod, the machines never stop and the work never ends. The population toil in the mines and factoria to protect humanity from the monsters in the void, while the Adept...

  • Ogres

    Ogres are bigger than you.
    Ogres are stronger than you.
    Ogres rule the world.

    It’s always idyllic in the village until the landlord comes to call.

    Because the landlord is an Ogre. And Ogres rule the world, with their...

  • Eyes of the Void

    The Final Architects Trilogy - 2

    The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel in an extraordinary space opera trilogy about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. After eighty years of...

  • The King Must Fall

    When the mighty and cruel must be brought low, it's the killers and the schemers who emerge from the shadows. As plans twist and change, and our protagonists are foiled and beaten, one thing remains true: no matter the cost, the king must fall.Th...

  • Children of Memory

    Children of Time - 3

    The latest thrilling story in the series started by Adrian Tchaikovsky's extraordinary Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Earth is failing. In a desperate bid to escape,...

  • Bear Head

    Honey the genetically engineered bear starts a revolution on the Red Planet in the new novel from the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time.
    WELCOME TO HELL CITY, MARS
    Jimmy Martin has a sore head.

    He's us...

  • And Put Away Childish Things

    All roads lead to Underhill, where it’s always winter, and never nice. Harry Bodie has a famous grandmother, who wrote beloved children’s books set in the delightful world of Underhill. Harry himself is a failing kids’ TV presenter whose every...

  • City of Last Chances

    2024 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST, BEST FANTASY NOVEL
    WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL

    'Endlessly creative... so much invention peeking around every corner' Patrick Ness

    Arthur C. ...

  • Terrible Worlds

    The Future Is Oppression.Scions, sonko, landlords: whatever you call them, they're the super rich, the princes of capitalism, living off the labour â€" and the deaths â€" of the swarming masses and all too happy to see the world burn to preserve thei...

  • Lords of Uncreation

    The Final Architects Trilogy - 3

    The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the third and final novel in an extraordinary space opera trilogy about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all.  ...



  • The Long and Hungry Road

  • Web of Ruin

  • House of Open Wounds

    Behind the front lines of a crusade to scour the world of magic, the crew of a field hospital confront the horrors of war. A companion novel to Adrian Tchaikovsky's award-winning fantasy novel City of Last Chances

    City-by-city, kingdom...

  • Alien Clay

    From Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky comes a far-future epic that confirms his place as a modern master of science fiction, in which a political prisoner must unlock the secrets of a strange and dangerous plane...

  • Service Model

    Murderbot meets Redshirts in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder from the Hugo-nominated author of Elder Race and Children of Time.To fix the world they must first break it, further.Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial ...

  • Saturation Point

    A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new climate thriller from the “Master of British SF”Doctor Jasmine Marks is going back into hell. The Hygrometric Dehabitation Region, or the “Zone,...

  • Days of Shattered Faith

    Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, inheritor to the necromantic dominion that was the Moeribandi Empire and tomorrow's frontline in the Palleseen's relentless march to bring Perfecti...

  • Bee Speaker

    The end of the world has been and gone. There was no one great natural disaster, no all-consuming world war, no catastrophic pandemic. Rather scores of storms, droughts and floods; dozens of vicious, selfish regional conflicts that only destroyed wha...

  • Shroud

    On a planet shrouded in darkness, a stranded crew must fight for survival. But, the darkness may have plans of its own in this wildly original story from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Awardâ€"winning author of Children of Time. They l...

  • The Hungry Gods

    A fallen god and an orphaned survivor set out for revenge in a dark apocalyptic thriller from the “Master of British SF”The Gods have returned to the world. Amri was a Rabbit, one of a tribe of survivors scratching out an existence in the...

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Adrian Tchaikovsky has published 59 books.

The next book by Adrian Tchaikovsky, The Hungry Gods, will be published in August 2025.

The first book by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Empire in Black and Gold, was published in July 2008.

Yes. Adrian Tchaikovsky has 5 series.
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