Clarke Award for Children of Time (winner). Tchaikovsky has received the following literary awards and nominations: 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.' Awards and nominations Tchaikovsky has regularly expressed his intention regarding the Shadows of the Apt series not to make science better than magic, 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. He is currently involved with the LARP game Empire. 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. From this original scenario the entire series of books grew. The game concerned the story of the insect-people of the Lowlands, threatened by the encroaching Wasp Empire. Whilst studying at the University of Reading he managed a role-playing game named Bugworld. Tchaikovsky revealed the basis of Shadows of the Apt in an online essay entitled 'Entering the Shadows' at. On 23 January 2019, Tchaikovsky was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the Arts by the University of Lincoln.

Tchaikovsky expressed desire that the Polish editions of his novels feature the original Polish spelling of his surname, but these too used 'Tchaikovsky'. The series was later published in America by Pyr Books. 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. In late 2018 he became a full time writer. He was employed as a legal executive for the Commercial Dispute Department of Blacks, Solicitors, of Leeds. He studied zoology and psychology at the University of Reading. Biography Īdrian Czajkowski was born in Lincolnshire in Woodhall Spa on 4 June 1972. Author James Lovegrove described it as 'superior stuff, tackling big themes – gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness – with brio'. Ĭhildren of Time was awarded the 30th Arthur C. He is known best for his series Shadows of the Apt, and for his novel Children of Time. Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, England, United KingdomĪdrian Czajkowski (spelled as Adrian Tchaikovsky for his books) is a British fantasy and science fiction author.

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