Book Search

Children of Time

2015-06-04

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction

The last humans leave a dying Earth in search of a new home. They find a terraformed planet that should have been prepared for them. But in the millennia since its creation, an independent civilization has taken hold: spiders, uplifted by an ancient nanovirus...

Open details

Children of Ruin

2019-05-14

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction

The sequel to Children of Time: another planet, another experiment gone wrong, this time with octopuses. Adrian Tchaikovsky follows through on how alien an intelligence can be when it does not descend from primates.

Open details

Bear Head

2021-01-07

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction

The sequel to Dogs of War: engineered bears work on Mars, and inside one of them sits a second mind that does not belong there. Adrian Tchaikovsky argues about personhood and ownership.

Open details

The Doors of Eden

2020-08-18

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction

Two women vanish in Wales in 2016 and one returns years later. Adrian Tchaikovsky ties that to evolutionary history, with interleaved chapters showing Earths where something other than humanity came out ahead.

Open details

Blood of the Mantis

2009-08-07

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction

The third Shadows of the Apt novel: in a world where people carry the traits of insects, the Wasp Empire keeps expanding. Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Open details

The Expert System's Champion

2021-01-26

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction

The sequel to The Expert System s Brother: on a planet where humans survive only with implanted spirits, the system itself becomes the problem. Adrian Tchaikovsky, short and dense.

Open details

Dogs of War

2017-11-02

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction

Rex is an engineered war dog with speech and a conscience that was programmed into him. When his master gives orders that violate it, he has to decide whom he belongs to. Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Open details

Made Things

2019-11-05

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction

In a city ruled by magicians lives a thief with puppets that move by themselves. Adrian Tchaikovsky tells it briefly and from the point of view of the small creatures.

Open details

The Tales of Catt and Fisher

2020-12-03

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction

Four new tales of the doctors Catt and Fisher. Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Open details

Im Krieg

2019-08-12

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction

Rex is a good dog. Rex is also a weapon. Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Open details

Walking to Aldebaran

2019-05-28

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction

I am lost, I am scared, and there is something horrible in here. Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Open details

Die Kinder der Zeit

2018-02-12

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction

The last humans look for a new planet and find one where something else has already built a civilisation. Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Open details

The Bloody Deluge

2014-07-03

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

Fiction

A year ago civilisation died in the great plague. Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Open details