ReviewScifi
Children Of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book review).
Children Of Strife by Adrian Tchaikovsky is the fourth book in the Children Of Time series of novels. The author won the Arthur…
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ReviewFantasy
Lives Of Bitter Rain (The Tyrant Philosophers book 5) by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book review).
Can a young orphan girl, lacking any particular talent except for sword-fighting, ascend through the ranks of a tough, ruthless regime aiming to…
August 2022
ReviewHorror
The Private Life of Elder Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Keris McDonald and Adam Gauntlett (book review).
Collections of short stories based on the Cthulhu Mythos are hardly new, but collections of short stories about people living alongside Mythos creatures…
January 2021
ReviewScifi
Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book review).
In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s ‘Dogs Of War’ we were introduced to the world of bioforms, bio-enhanced intelligent animals developed to fight and to always…
November 2019
ReviewFantasy
Made Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book review).
Coppelia lives in the Barrio, the slum city pressed up against the most magical city in the world. She takes what work she…
July 2019
ReviewScifi
Cage Of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book review).
In the very far future, the remnants of mankind live in the city of Shadrapur. It’s a ruin of a city, eking out…
June 2019
ReviewScifi
Children Of Ruin (The Children Of Time novels book 2) by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book review).
In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s 2015 novel ‘Children Of Time’, we followed some of the descendants of humanity as they travelled among the stars on…
October 2018
ReviewScifi
Dogs Of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book review).
Rex is a bio-engineered dog designed for war, given limited autonomy to command his small troop of other creatures and sent out into…
June 2018
ReviewFantasy
Tales Of The Apt: Volume 2: A Time For Grief by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book review).
‘A Time for Grief’ is the second volume of short stories set in the world of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s ten part epic, ‘Shadows Of…
April 2018
ReviewScifi
Ironclads by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book review).
Until relatively recently, Adrian Tchaikovsky was known almost exclusively as a fantasy author, having produced the multi-volume epic fantasy series ‘Shadows Of The…
February 2017
ReviewFantasy
Tales Of The Apt: Spoils Of War Volume One by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book review).
After ten novels in his ‘Shadows Of The Apt’ series, it’s unsurprising that Adrian Tchaikovsky has a few short stories up his sleeve…
August 2015
ReviewScifi
Children Of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (book review).
I shared a Table of Contents with Adrian Tchaikovsky in the NewCon Press anthology ‘Looking Landward’ a couple of years ago. His story…