The Best of Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Dec 2026 · Bloomsbury GB Audio · Narrated by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Al Barclay, Ben Allen, Gabrielle Nellis-Pain, John Pirhalla, John Scalzi, Laurence Bouvard, Mel Hudson, Nathan Osgood, Rod Hallett, Sophie Aldred, and William Hope
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Bloomsbury presents The Best of Adrian Tchaikovsky, read by Emma Newman, Rod Hallet, Gabrielle Nellis-Pain, Mel Hudson, Al Barclay, Sophie Aldred, Laurence Bouvard, John Pirhalla, Nathan Osgood, William Hope, Ben Allen, John Scalzi and Adrian Tchaikovsky.
37 stories; the ultimate collection of Tchaikovsky’s short(er) fiction.
Delve within...
Hungry ants that want to reconstruct the world in their own image. Occult investigations into private clubs. A philosopher’s attachment to his beloved pet. A new definition of battlefield archaeology.
What the homunculi do when the wizard’s away. A trans-dimensional theatre troupe. Murder by flower-arrangement. The infectious consequences of a fairytale wedding.
A magician conjures Sherlock Holmes. What happens when the mining robots mine, but not for you. The ultimate polycule. What is the groppler and why does it gropple?
Spanning the full spectrum of science fiction and fantasy to the deliciously strange, this collection stretches Tchaikovsky's prolific career, accompanied by a foreword from author of Old Man's War, John Scalzi.
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‘No one has an an imagination like Adrian Tchaikovsky.’ Jim Al-Khalili, presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific
'I swear the man is some kind of genius.' Peter Watts, author of Blindsight
'This is superior stuff.' Financial Times
37 stories; the ultimate collection of Tchaikovsky’s short(er) fiction.
Delve within...
Hungry ants that want to reconstruct the world in their own image. Occult investigations into private clubs. A philosopher’s attachment to his beloved pet. A new definition of battlefield archaeology.
What the homunculi do when the wizard’s away. A trans-dimensional theatre troupe. Murder by flower-arrangement. The infectious consequences of a fairytale wedding.
A magician conjures Sherlock Holmes. What happens when the mining robots mine, but not for you. The ultimate polycule. What is the groppler and why does it gropple?
Spanning the full spectrum of science fiction and fantasy to the deliciously strange, this collection stretches Tchaikovsky's prolific career, accompanied by a foreword from author of Old Man's War, John Scalzi.
***
‘No one has an an imagination like Adrian Tchaikovsky.’ Jim Al-Khalili, presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific
'I swear the man is some kind of genius.' Peter Watts, author of Blindsight
'This is superior stuff.' Financial Times
Bloomsbury presents The Best of Adrian Tchaikovsky, read by Emma Newman, Rod Hallet, Gabrielle Nellis-Pain, Mel Hudson, Al Barclay, Sophie Aldred, Laurence Bouvard, John Pirhalla, Nathan Osgood, William Hope, Ben Allen, John Scalzi and Adrian Tchaikovsky.
37 stories; the ultimate collection of T...
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Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British science-fiction and fantasy writer known for a wide-variety of work including the Children of Time, Final Architecture, Dogs of War, Tyrant Philosophers and Shadows of the Apt series, as well as standalone books such as Elder Race, Doors of Eden, Spiderlight and many others. Children of Time and its series has won the Arthur C Clarke and BSFA awards, and his other works have won the British Fantasy, British Science Fiction and Sidewise Awards.
Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British science-fiction and fantasy writer known for a wide-variety of work including the Children of Time, Final Architecture, Dogs of War, Tyrant Philosophers and Shadows of the Apt series, as well as standalone books such as Elder Race, Doors of Eden, Spiderlight and ma...
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