Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Czajkowski
Adrian Czajkowski
	Adrian Tchaikovsky
Born	1972 (age 52); Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Author and legal executive
Language	English
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Reading
Period	2008 – present
Genre	Fantasy and science fiction
Subject	Zoology and psychology
Notable works	Shadows of the Apt series; Children of Time; Dogs of War
Notable awards	Arthur C. Clarke Award (2016); Hugo Award for Best Series (2023)
Children	1
Website
	www.adriantchaikovsky.com

Last updated March 08, 2024

Adrian Czajkowski (spelt as Adrian Tchaikovsky for his books; born June 1972) is a British fantasy and science fiction author. He is best known for his series Shadows of the Apt, and for his Hugo Award-winning^{[lower-alpha 1]} Children of Time series.^[2]

Biography

Adrian Czajkowski was born in Lincolnshire in Woodhall Spa in June 1972.^[4] He is of Polish descent.^[5] He studied zoology and psychology at the University of Reading. He then qualified as a legal executive.^[6] He was employed as a legal executive for the Commercial Dispute Department of Blacks, Solicitors, of Leeds.^[7] In late 2018 he became a full time writer.^[6]

He lives in Leeds with his wife and son.^[8]^[9]^[10]

In 2008, after Tchaikovsky had spent fifteen years trying to get published, his novel Empire in Black and Gold was published by Tor Books (UK) –an imprint of Pan Macmillan –in the United Kingdom.^[11] The series was later published in America by Pyr Books. Tchaikovsky expressed desire that the Polish editions of his novels feature the original Polish spelling of his surname,^[12] but these too used "Tchaikovsky".^[13]

On 23 January 2019, Tchaikovsky was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the Arts by the University of Lincoln.^[14]

Career

Tchaikovsky revealed the basis of Shadows of the Apt in an online essay entitled "Entering the Shadows" at Upcoming4.me.^[15]

Whilst studying at the University of Reading he managed a role-playing game named Bugworld. The game concerned the story of the insect-people of the Lowlands, threatened by the encroaching Wasp Empire. From this original scenario the entire series of books grew.

Tchaikovsky still uses role-playing games to help develop his stories, but now also uses live action role-playing, which assists in describing the numerous action and battle sequences in his books. He is currently involved with the LARP game Empire.^[16]

Tchaikovsky has regularly expressed his intention regarding the Shadows of the Apt series not to make science better than magic,^[17] or vice versa: "This is another key element, really: the magic/tech divide is a concept that turns up here and there in fantasy, but usually one side is good (mostly magic) and the other (dirty polluting tech) is bad. With the world of the kinden, they’re basically both as bad as the people who use them, whether it’s blood sacrifice in a Mantis-kinden grove or the Wasp Empire’s city-levelling weaponry."^[18]

Awards and nominations

Tchaikovsky has received the following literary awards and nominations:

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§	Indicates a declined award

Year	Work	Award	Result	Ref.
2016	Children of Time	Arthur C. Clarke Award	Won	^[3]
2017	The Tiger and the Wolf	British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel	Won	^[19]
2019	Children of Ruin	BSFA Award for Best Novel	Won	^[20]
2020	The Doors of Eden	Philip K. Dick Award	Nominated	^[21]
2020	The Doors of Eden	Sidewise Award for Alternate History for Long-form	Won	^[22]^[23]
2021	Shards of Earth	BSFA Award for Best Novel	Won	^[20]
2022	City of Last Chances	BSFA Award for Best Novel	Won	^[20]
2022	Elder Race	Hugo Award for Best Novella	Nominated	^[24]
2023	Ogres	Hugo Award for Best Novella	Nominated	^[25]
2023	The Children of Time series	Hugo Award for Best Series	Won_§^{[lower-alpha 1]}	^[27]

Bibliography

Novels

Shadows of the Apt
Main novels

Empire in Black and Gold (2008), ISBN 978-0-230-73646-7
Dragonfly Falling (2009), ISBN 978-0-230-70415-2
Blood of the Mantis (2009), ISBN 978-0-230-70416-9
Salute the Dark (2010), ISBN 978-0-330-51144-5
The Scarab Path (2010), ISBN 978-0-330-51145-2
The Sea Watch (2011), ISBN 978-0-330-51146-9
Heirs of the Blade (2011), ISBN 978-0-230-75699-1
The Air War (2012), ISBN 978-0-230-75700-4
War Master's Gate (2013), ISBN 978-0-230-75701-1
Seal of the Worm (2014), ISBN 978-0-230-77001-0

Tales of the Apt (short story collections in the Apt universe)

Spoils of War (2016), ISBN 978-1-910935-21-7
A Time for Grief (2017), ISBN 978-1-910935-21-7
For Love of Distant Shores (2018), ISBN 978-1-910935-71-2
The Scent of Tears (2018), ISBN 978-1-910935-71-2

Children of Time

Children of Time (2015), ISBN 978-1-4472-7328-8
Children of Ruin (2019), ISBN 978-1-5098-6585-7
Children of Memory (2022), ISBN 978-1-5290-8717-8

Echoes of the Fall

The Tiger and the Wolf (2016), ISBN 978-0-230-77006-5
The Bear and the Serpent (2017), ISBN 978-1-5098-3022-0
The Hyena and the Hawk (2018), ISBN 978-1-5098-3026-8

Bioforms

Dogs of War (Head of Zeus, 2017), ISBN 978-1-78669-388-4
Bear Head (Head of Zeus, 2021), ISBN 978-1-80024-154-1

The Tyrant Philosophers

City of Last Chances (2022), ISBN 978-1-80110-842-3
House of Open Wounds (2023), ISBN 978-1-0359-0138-8

The Final Architecture

Shards of Earth (Tor, 2021), ISBN 978-1-5290-5188-9
Eyes of the Void (Tor, 2022), ISBN 978-1-5290-5193-3
Lords of Uncreation (Tor, 2023), ISBN 978-1-5290-5198-8

Standalone novels

Guns of the Dawn (2015), ISBN 978-0-230-77003-4
Spiderlight (Tor.com, 2016), ISBN 978-0-7653-8836-0
Cage of Souls (Head of Zeus, 2019), ISBN 978-1-78854-724-6
The Doors of Eden (2020), ISBN 978-1-5098-6588-8
Alien Clay (Orbit, 2024), ISBN 978-0-316-57896-7
Service Model (Tor.com, 2024), ISBN 978-1-250-29028-1

After the War series

Redemption's Blade (Solaris Books, 2018), ISBN 978-1-78108-579-0, is the first book in a multi-author series. The series was continued with Salvation's Fire by Justina Robson and published on 4 September 2018.

Warhammer 40,000

Tchaikovsky's first Warhammer 40,000 novel Day of Ascension (2022), like his short story "Raised in Darkness" from Inferno! Volume 6 (2021), concerns the insidious Genestealer Cults.

Day of Ascension (2022)

Novellas

Ironclads (Solaris Books, 2017), ISBN 978-1781085684
The Expert System's Brother (Tor.com, 2018), ISBN 9781250197566
Walking to Aldebaran (Solaris Books, 2019), ISBN 9781781087060
Made Things (Tor.com, 2019), ISBN 9781250232991
Firewalkers (Solaris Books, 2020), ISBN 9781781088487
The Expert System's Champion (Tor.com, 2021), ISBN 978-1250766397
One Day All This Will Be Yours (Solaris Books, 2021), ISBN 978-1781088746
Elder Race (Tor.com, 2021), ISBN 978-1250768728
Ogres (Solaris Books, 2022), ISBN 978-1786185280
And Put Away Childish Things (Solaris Books, 2023), ISBN 978-1786188793.
Saturation Point (Solaris Books, 2023), ISBN 978-1837861743.

Short stories

"The Final Conjuration" in Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets: An Anthology of Holmesian Tales Across Time and Space (Abaddon Books, 2014) ISBN 978-1781082225, a collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories
"Where the Brass Band Plays" in Urban Mythic 2 (Alchemy Press, 2014), ISBN 978-0-9573489-9-8 ^[28]
"Shadow Hunter" in Grimdark Magazine, issue #1^[29]

Other collections

Feast and Famine (New Con Press, 2013), ISBN 978-1907069543. This collection contains the stories "Feast and Famine", "The Artificial Man", "The Roar of the Crowd", "Good Taste", "The Dissipation Club", "Rapture", "Care", "2144 and All That", "The God Shark" and "The Sun in the Morning".

The Private Life of Elder Things (2016), ISBN 978-1911034025. Co-authored by Keris McDonald and Adam Gauntlett. A collection of new Lovecraftian fiction about confronting, discovering and living alongside the creatures of the Mythos.

Terrible Worlds: Revolutions (Solaris, 2023), ISBN 978-1786188885. Collects three novellas: Ironclads, Firewalkers and Ogres.

Critical studies and reviews of Tchaikovsky's work

The Doors of Eden

West, Michelle (July–August 2020). "Musing on Books". F&SF . 139 (1&2): 88‒94.

Notes

1 2 3 Tchaikovsky has since expressed a wish to retract the win due to the subsequent ballot controversy.^[26]

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References

↑ "Summary Bibliography: Adrian Tchaikovsky". www.isfdb.org.
↑ Tomio, Jay (26 September 2008). "Bug Out with Adrian Tchaikovsky Before Children of Time". Nekoplz. Retrieved 11 March 2010.
1 2 Flood, Alison (24 August 2016). "Arthur C Clarke award goes to Adrian Tchaikovsky's novel of 'universal scale'" . Retrieved 25 August 2016– via www.theguardian.com.
↑ Clute, John (13 June 2022). "Tchaikovsky, Adrian". In Clute, John; Langford, David (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (4th ed.).
↑ "About the author : Shadows of the Apt".
1 2 "Adrian Tchaikovsky: From Star to Star". Locus . Vol. 88, no. 5. 9 May 2022.
↑ "Who's Who?" (PDF). www.lawblacks.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
↑ "Pan Macmillan author page". Archived from the original on 13 January 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2012.
↑ Tchaikovsky, Adrian (2010). The Scarab Path. Tor Books. ISBN 978-0-330-51145-2.
↑ Wright, Jonathan (September 2009). "Meet a Brit author in the vanguard of the new heroic fantasy…". SFX Magazine. Archived from the original on 8 March 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
↑ "Adrian Tchaikovsky interview". Archived from the original on 9 November 2009. Retrieved 28 May 2010.
↑ Tchaikovsky, Adrian (30 March 2008). "The Long Good Lunch". Empire Rising. Archived from the original on 13 March 2012. However, as the possibility of the Polish rights being sold seems extremely viable, there is an epilogue to this tale of Frankish ignorance, for in Poland, one would strongly assume, I may finally see my name in print in its unadulterated form.
↑ "Imprerium Czerni i złota – Adrian Tchaikovsky" (in Polish). Rebis. Archived from the original on 9 October 2010. Retrieved 12 October 2010.
↑ "First nursing associates graduate among 1,000 students in Lincoln". The Lincolnite. 23 January 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
↑ "Story behind Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky – Entering the Shadows". Upcoming4.me. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
↑ "Profound Decisions – Empire". www.profounddecisions.co.uk. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
↑ See Magic in fiction
↑ "Interview with Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Shadow of the Apt series". www.londoncalling.com. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
↑ "Announcing the 2017 British Fantasy Award Winners". Tor.com. 1 October 2017..
1 2 3 "Previous BSFA Award Winners".
↑ "Nominations 2021".
↑ "Adrian Tchaikovsky: From Star to Star". Locus Online. 9 May 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
↑ "Sidewise Award". Lincoln City Libraries. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
↑ "2022 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. 4 September 2022. Archived from the original on 5 September 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
↑ "2023 Hugo Awards".
↑ Tchaikovsky, Adrian. "A Statement on the 2023 Hugo Awards". adriantchaikovsky.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2024. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
↑ "The 2023 Hugo Award Winners Are Here". Gizmodo . 24 October 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
↑ "Urban Mythic 2". 12 August 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2019.
↑ "Grimdark Magazine #1".

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[HugoStatement-2] 1 2 3 Tchaikovsky has since expressed a wish to retract the win due to the subsequent ballot controversy.^[26]

[1] "Summary Bibliography: Adrian Tchaikovsky". www.isfdb.org.

[3] Tomio, Jay (26 September 2008). "Bug Out with Adrian Tchaikovsky Before Children of Time". Nekoplz. Retrieved 11 March 2010.

[flood-4] 1 2 Flood, Alison (24 August 2016). "Arthur C Clarke award goes to Adrian Tchaikovsky's novel of 'universal scale'" . Retrieved 25 August 2016– via www.theguardian.com.

[SFE-5] Clute, John (13 June 2022). "Tchaikovsky, Adrian". In Clute, John; Langford, David (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (4th ed.).

[6] "About the author : Shadows of the Apt".

[locus-7] 1 2 "Adrian Tchaikovsky: From Star to Star". Locus . Vol. 88, no. 5. 9 May 2022.

[8] "Who's Who?" (PDF). www.lawblacks.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 December 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2019.

[bio-9] "Pan Macmillan author page". Archived from the original on 13 January 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2012.

[10] Tchaikovsky, Adrian (2010). The Scarab Path. Tor Books. ISBN 978-0-330-51145-2.

[11] Wright, Jonathan (September 2009). "Meet a Brit author in the vanguard of the new heroic fantasy…". SFX Magazine. Archived from the original on 8 March 2010. Retrieved 15 March 2010.

[12] "Adrian Tchaikovsky interview". Archived from the original on 9 November 2009. Retrieved 28 May 2010.

[13] Tchaikovsky, Adrian (30 March 2008). "The Long Good Lunch". Empire Rising. Archived from the original on 13 March 2012. However, as the possibility of the Polish rights being sold seems extremely viable, there is an epilogue to this tale of Frankish ignorance, for in Poland, one would strongly assume, I may finally see my name in print in its unadulterated form.

[14] "Imprerium Czerni i złota – Adrian Tchaikovsky" (in Polish). Rebis. Archived from the original on 9 October 2010. Retrieved 12 October 2010.

[15] "First nursing associates graduate among 1,000 students in Lincoln". The Lincolnite. 23 January 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2019.

[16] "Story behind Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky – Entering the Shadows". Upcoming4.me. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 8 August 2014.

[17] "Profound Decisions – Empire". www.profounddecisions.co.uk. Retrieved 23 January 2019.

[18] See Magic in fiction

[19] "Interview with Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Shadow of the Apt series". www.londoncalling.com. Retrieved 23 January 2019.

[20] "Announcing the 2017 British Fantasy Award Winners". Tor.com. 1 October 2017..

[BSFA-21] 1 2 3 "Previous BSFA Award Winners".

[22] "Nominations 2021".

[23] "Adrian Tchaikovsky: From Star to Star". Locus Online. 9 May 2022. Retrieved 21 February 2024.

[24] "Sidewise Award". Lincoln City Libraries. Retrieved 21 February 2024.

[Hugo22-25] "2022 Hugo Awards". World Science Fiction Society. 4 September 2022. Archived from the original on 5 September 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2022.

[Hugo2023-26] "2023 Hugo Awards".

[27] Tchaikovsky, Adrian. "A Statement on the 2023 Hugo Awards". adriantchaikovsky.com. Archived from the original on 21 February 2024. Retrieved 21 February 2024.

[28] "The 2023 Hugo Award Winners Are Here". Gizmodo . 24 October 2023. Retrieved 21 February 2024.

[29] "Urban Mythic 2". 12 August 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2019.

[30] "Grimdark Magazine #1".

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Adrian Czajkowski
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Born	1972 (1972) (age 52) Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Author and legal executive
Language	English
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Reading
Period	2008 – present
Genre	Fantasy and science fiction ^[1]
Subject	Zoology and psychology
Notable works	Shadows of the Apt series Children of Time Dogs of War
Notable awards	Arthur C. Clarke Award (2016) Hugo Award for Best Series (2023)^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Children	1
Website
www.adriantchaikovsky.com