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Adrian Tchaikovsky

あどりあん・ちゃいこふすきー

Adorian Tchaikofusukī

Aliases: Adrian Czajkowski

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1972-06-01 （Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, England）
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
Lincolnshire → Reading → Leeds

Career

Occupations
Author, Legal executive
Active Years
2008-2024
Affiliations
Blacks Solicitors (former)
Memberships
Empire LARP
Influenced By
Gerald Durrell, David Attenborough
Nominations
2023 Hugo Award for Best Series (Children of Time series, declined), 2024 BSFA Award for Novel (Alien Clay, declined), 2024 Hugo Award for Best Series (The Final Architecture finalist)

Education

University of Reading
Faculty of Science / Zoology and Psychology
Country: United Kingdom
Studied zoology and psychology
University of Lincoln
Degree: 名誉芸術博士
Year of Graduation: 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Honorary Doctorate of the Arts

Awards

Arthur C. Clarke Award
2016
Work: Children of Time
Organization: Arthur C. Clarke Award
Result: Won
British Fantasy Award
2017
Work: The Tiger and the Wolf
Category: ファンタジー小説
Organization: British Fantasy Society
Result: Won
BSFA Award
2019
Work: Children of Ruin
Category: 小説部門
Organization: British Science Fiction Association
Result: Won
BSFA Award
2021
Work: Shards of Earth
Category: 小説部門
Organization: British Science Fiction Association
Result: Won
BSFA Award
2022
Work: City of Last Chances
Category: 小説部門
Organization: British Science Fiction Association
Result: Won
Sidewise Award
2020
Work: The Doors of Eden
Category: 長編部門
Organization: Sidewise Awards
Result: Won
BSFA Award
2024
Work: Saturation Point
Category: 短編フィクション部門
Organization: British Science Fiction Association
Result: Won

Awards & Nominations

Philip K. Dick Award 1 appearances
  1. Edition 43 (2025) Special Citation
    Work: Alien Clay

    A biologist exiled to the prison world of Kiln is forced to confront a dangerous ecosystem and the traces of a vanished civilization. The novel combines meticulously imagined alien life with a story of resistance against authoritarian power.

    On a prison world, the real discovery is not just alien life, but the history buried beneath it.

    432 pages
    alien ecologypolitical oppressionprison planetevolution and symbiosisdiscovery and resistance

Works

Major Works

Children of Time

2015 Science Fiction

A grand tale of spiders evolving intelligence on a post-human planet, tackling gods, messiahs, AI, and alienness.

EvolutionAlien intelligenceArtificial intelligenceHuman limitations

Saturation Point

2024 Science Fiction

A novella exploring limits of transformation and saturation.

TransformationSaturationAlien forms

Shards of Earth

2021 Space Opera

First of The Final Architecture series. Humanity faces cosmic threats.

Interstellar warExtradimensional beingsSurvival

City of Last Chances

2022 Fantasy

Intrigues among diverse factions in an occupied city.

BureaucracyResistanceMulticulturalism

The Tiger and the Wolf

2016 Fantasy

Struggles between shape-shifting animal tribes.

ShapeshiftingTribal conflictNature

Bibliography

  • Shadows of the Apt series
  • Children of Time series
  • Echoes of the Fall series
  • The Final Architecture series
  • The Tyrant Philosophers series

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Detailed worldbuildingInnovative non-human perspectivesDynamic action sequences
Recurring Motifs
Non-human mindsFrailties of bureaucracyEvolution and adaptationLimits of human time perception

Legacy

Prominent SF/fantasy author acclaimed for depictions of alien civilizations and non-human minds, winner of Hugo, Clarke, BSFA, and other awards.

Trivia

  • British of Polish descent. Real name Adrian Czajkowski, uses Tchaikovsky for books.
  • Former legal executive, full-time writer since late 2018.
  • Won Xenos magazine competition but magazine folded before publication.
  • Has one child.