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Adrian Tchaikovsky
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 its dangers?
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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…
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From Adrian Tchaikovsky, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Children of Time, comes an unparalleled narrative of alien contact and human discovery in this follow-up to Children of Ruin.
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…
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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…
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…
Extras include excerpts from Red moon by Kim Stanley Robinson and Roswater by Tade Thomspson.
When xeno-biologist Arton Daghdev is exiled to a alien planet, he journeys through a dangerous and hostile wilderness. Yet on his expection, he uncovers lost alien ruins - and the…
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Charles (TM), the latest in robo-butler technology, has accidentally murdered his master. Exiled and confused, he goes on a journey of self-discovery that might just change the world. Written with…
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Lords of Uncreation is the gripping conclusion to the Final Architecture trilogy.
After two scientists crash on a hostile moon, they must use every tool at their disposal to survive. A tense, atmospheric voyage into the unknown from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of…
When dissident Arton Daghdev is exiled to an alien planet, he journeys through a dangerous and hostile wilderness. Yet on his expedition, he uncovers lost alien ruins - and the…
Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky returns to the darkly exhuberant world of the Tyrant Philosophers series (City of Last Chances; House of Open Wounds) with…
Ilmar is a city under occupation and on the verge of revolution. A city about to go to war not only aginst its oppressors, but also against itself. Ideological zealots…
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From the Arthur C. Clarke award winner, Adrian Tchaikovsky, comes the third instalment of the DOGS OF WAR science fiction series, a future where genetically engineered "Bioforms" have inherited not…
A thrilling far-future space adventure from this Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author. If you loved Children of Time, this will be the perfect next read.
This is a breathtaking novel from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke award winning author. The walls between many worlds are collapsing and only a handful of people are in on…
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Mischief, Magic, Love and War. It is the Year of Our Lord 1601. The Tuscan War rages across the world, and every lord from Navarre to Illyria is embroiled in…
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The second book in this epic fantasy trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Maniye has been named Champion of her people - but there are…
When xeno-biologist Arton Daghdev is exiled to an alien planet, he journeys through a dangerous and hostile wilderness. Yet on his expedition, he uncovers lost alien ruins - and the…
FROM THE BSFA AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF CITY OF LAST CHANCES
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the…
Making friends has never been so important.
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…
In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The Expert System’s Champion, sometimes the ones you hate are the only ones that can save you.
[A] junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe –Provided by publisher.
Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the award-winning Children of Time, brings us a thrilling adventure. The action takes us from Bodmin Moor, to London and to alternative worlds. And the doors…
Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Children of Time, brings you an epic fantasy series of war and empire. In this first volume, an ancient empire…
Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Children of Time, brings you an epic fantasy series of war and empire. In this third volume, Stenwold must rally his…
The epic fantasy series of war and empire by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky continues. The Wasp Empire’s conquest over Collegium has halted - for now. But only…
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.
Twenty years ago, Dr. Jasmine Marks went into the "Zone," a growing band of rainforest where the heat and humidity make it impossible for warm-blooded animals to survive. There were…
For over 25 years The Alchemy Press has published fantasy, science fiction and horror in fiction and non-fiction, and a few poems along the way, from a wealth of wonderful…
The eighth in the Shadows of the Apt series
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In a sequel to Dogs of War, Honey the genetically engineered bear takes a ride in Jimmy the Martian’s head and starts a revolution on the Red Planet.
They face a hunger that could consume the gods themselves.
The fifth novel in the thrilling Shadows of the Apt series - following on from Empire in Black and Gold, Dragonfly Falling, Blood of the Mantis and Salute the Dark.
For all the fans who loved the long-running series of Robert Jordan and his Wheel of Time series, comes the concluding novel in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s ten book epic fantasy series…
The seventh in the Shadows of the Apt series
The third novel in the Shadows of the Apt fantasy series.
The ninth in the Shadows of the Apt series.
They're the super rich, the princes of capitalism, living off the deaths of the swarming masses and all too happy to see the world burn. In three critically-acclaimed novellas, Tchaikovsky…
