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Adrian Tchaikovsky
@aptshadow.bsky.social
47K followers 6.1K following 9.7K posts
Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
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We’re deep into recent genre writing this month on the podcast. Regular episode is @annasmithspark.bsky.social ‘s Sword of Bronze and Ashes and for our patrons we discuss EJ Swift’s The Coral Bones.
February 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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Mornington Crescent: a rant.

Or: how a goofy word game about train stations is the key to how devout causes can ruin people's ability to have a conversation.

Stand clear of the closing doors, let's begin.

1/18
White-tiled wall with a London Underground sign, a blue centre bar in a red circle. The centre bar reads 'MORNINGTON CRESCENT'. Source: https://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/blog/2014/12/30/mornington-crescent-still-peculiar
February 9, 2026 at 8:51 AM
aptshadow.bsky.social
We’re deep into recent genre writing this month on the podcast. Regular episode is @annasmithspark.bsky.social ‘s Sword of Bronze and Ashes and for our patrons we discuss EJ Swift’s The Coral Bones.
February 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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emmanewman.bsky.social
Lovelies, here's a shiny new episode of Starship Alexandria, in which we discuss a recommendation from @aptshadow.bsky.social : A Sword of Bronze and Ashes by Anna Smith-Spark.

There will be spoilers as we discuss the book in some depth!
starshipalexandria.com/episode-10-a...
Starship Alexandria: Episode 10 - A Sword of Bronze and Ashes
For our February 2026 episode of Starship Alexandria, Adrian puts forward the novel A Sword of Bronze and Ashes by Anna Smith Spark for Emma to consider.    Other talking points:  ...
starshipalexandria.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:33 AM
aptshadow.bsky.social
"This was the year Archie looked in the mirror and knew he was never going to be superb."
Sketch of a seedy looking own in a trenchcoat, with a cigarette and empty bottle.
February 8, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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#DEAL ALERT! One clickers untie because this is a rare Kindle UK #sale alert from me - SHROUD @aptshadow.bsky.social is on #sale on #Kindle UK for a limited time only!
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#Shroud #ad
Shroud: A gripping first contact story from the Arthur C. Clarke Award winner
An expedition to a distant star system discovers a pitch-black moon alive with radio activity.
amzn.to
February 8, 2026 at 7:01 PM
aptshadow.bsky.social
For the love of God, Montresor!
February 8, 2026 at 8:19 AM
aptshadow.bsky.social
Worth saying: surprisingly few book covers actually reflect specifics from the book. It’s a tribute to Joe’s art and the HoZ briefing team that these covers are so striking and also every little detail relates to the book’s contents.
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The covers for @aptshadow.bsky.social 's Tyrant Philosophers series are maybe the best in the business right now.

Joe Wilson is incredible at having these detailed, eye catching and very distinctive designs that whet your appetite for what is inside.
The cover of the hardback edition of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Pretenders to the Throne of God. It is a mixture of silver, blue and black with the central image showing soldiers using a cannon to target a city with a lighthouse. The 4 corners have images of a lizardman in a great coat, an almost skeletal soldier with a great axe over one shoulder, a soldier with an eye patch and a slathering lizard.
February 7, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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biggreenbooks.bsky.social
This lovely thing arrived this morning.

SIGNED copies of Pretenders to the Throne of God by Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social.

Lots of pre-orders for this one, but I have TWO signed copies left.

Get one HERE.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
Front cover of Adrian's new book. Adrian's signature inside the book.
February 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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monkeybuckles.bsky.social
The covers for @aptshadow.bsky.social 's Tyrant Philosophers series are maybe the best in the business right now.

Joe Wilson is incredible at having these detailed, eye catching and very distinctive designs that whet your appetite for what is inside.
The cover of the hardback edition of Adrian Tchaikovsky's Pretenders to the Throne of God. It is a mixture of silver, blue and black with the central image showing soldiers using a cannon to target a city with a lighthouse. The 4 corners have images of a lizardman in a great coat, an almost skeletal soldier with a great axe over one shoulder, a soldier with an eye patch and a slathering lizard.
February 7, 2026 at 1:32 PM
aptshadow.bsky.social
Love this shoe shop logo though I think it would give serious dipterists conniptions.
February 7, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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In case it helps someone else:

They are still available but Goldsboro is weird about it and hides them, even when searching for „Adrian Tchaikovsky“

goldsborobooks.com/products/pre...
Pretenders to the Throne of God
Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller returns to a world steeped in magic - and the Tyrant Philosophers' campaign to bring reason, logic and 'perfection' to it.As the Palleseen's campaig...
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February 6, 2026 at 4:38 PM
aptshadow.bsky.social
DPD email: ‘we’re expecting your parcel.’ No suggestion from whom, or when, or indeed any other info than there may be a parcel at some point in the future. Like the worst fortune teller in the world. Like telling Caesar ‘beware some random date for no reason!’
February 6, 2026 at 4:17 PM
aptshadow.bsky.social
Just signed a few Goldsboro special editions of Pretenders to the Throne of God (Tyrant Philosophers book 4)
February 6, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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Red Ogre (@ogre.red) gets rights to your work upon *submission*.

And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology.

Don't submit to this one, folks.
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February 4, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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Time for another giveaway! One lucky reader will win a copy of our signed limited edition of @aptshadow.bsky.social's ALIEN CLAY! To enter, tell us your favorite alien world (and Dune is not allowed as an answer--too easy!). Int'l, ends 2/11 at noon ET.
Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky SubPress edition cover with Signed Limited Edition Giveaway
February 5, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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I'm talking with Gareth in Cardiff as part of the Children of Strife release tour (full details here adriantchaikovsky.com/events.html)
February 5, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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I got sent an early copy of Children of Strife by my good friend @aptshadow.bsky.social to read in advance of our talk at Waterstones Cardiff on Sunday 29th March. Details and tickets available via the events page on the @waterstones.bsky.social website.
February 5, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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The True Stories Behind The Photographs In The Habitat Catalogues Of The 1970s: www.tom-cox.com/the-true-sto...
The True Stories Behind The Photographs In The Habitat Catalogues Of The 1970s
This is a piece I wrote a while ago but I wanted to make it free to read again. I wrote it during the very early stages of planning for my novel 1983 when a memory popped up of wandering around the No...
www.tom-cox.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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BTW there are also a couple of other Kindle deals today on @aptshadow.bsky.social books - The Hungry Gods and Human Resources.
February 5, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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If you do Kindle (other ebook readers are available) then Shroud by @aptshadow.bsky.social is 99p currently. It's a thrilling tale of survival on an alien planet with some properly compelling "alien" aliens. Definitely one of my favourite books I've read so far this year.
Shroud: A gripping first contact story from the Arthur C. Clarke Award winner eBook : Tchaikovsky, Adrian: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Shroud: A gripping first contact story from the Arthur C. Clarke Award winner eBook : Tchaikovsky, Adrian: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Had a fantastic time with CITY OF LAST CHANCES, by
@aptshadow.bsky.social. This fantasy ranges across the titular city, reminding me of Les Mis (at least how I imagine it). Loved how the city itself is the protagonist.

If you're looking for a great read to sink into, grab a copy! #Reading #BookSky
A hand holds a copy of CITY OF LAST CHANCES by Adrian Tchaikovsky against a backdrop of crowded bookshelves. The cover shows a red and black sketch-style drawing featuring fragmented locations within an industrial fantasy city all stitched together as a whole.
February 4, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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New paint! My first Horus Heresy stuff. Mostly it hasn’t interested me because space marines are space marines but these guys…
Armoured space soldiers with axes and energy shotguns A squad of Flash Gordon looking miniatures with bucket helmets, rifles and swords A big bipedal walker with a laser cannon surrounded by troops Another squad of soldiers including a Romanesque standard bearer
February 4, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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Life imitates Art again - One of the plots in @aptshadow.bsky.social 's excellent Service Model is the AI getting more and more bogged down with long and contradictory to-do lists which it can never help to resolve, but has to keep checking anyway
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*breathes*

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Twitter post from @BenjaminDEKR “OpenClaw is interesting, but will also drain your wallet if you aren't careful. Last night around midnight I loaded my Anthropic API account with $20, then went to bed. When I woke up, my Anthropic balance was $O. Opus was checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." Doing literally nothing, OpenClaw spent the entire balance. How? The "Heartbeat" cron job, even though literally the only thing I had going was one silly reminder, ("remind me tomorrow to get milk")” Continuation of twitter post “1. Sent ~120,000 tokens of context to Opus 4.5 2. Opus read HEARTBEAT md, thought about reminders 3. Replied "HEARTBEAT_OK" 4. Cost: ~$0.75 per heartbeat (cache writes) The damage: - Overnight = ~25+ heartbeats - 25 × $0.75 = ~$18.75 just from heartbeats alone - Plus regular conversation = ~$20 total The absurdity: Opus was essentially checking "is it daytime yet?" every 30 minutes, paying $0.75 each time to conclude "no, it's still night." The problem is: 1. Heartbeat uses Opus (most expensive model) for a trivial check 2. Sends the entire conversation context (~120k tokens) each time 3. Runs every 30 minutes regardless of whether anything needs checking That's $750 a month if this runs, to occasionally remind me stuff? Yeah, no. Not great.”
February 2, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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Throughout the month of February, UK readers can snap up the eBook of @aptshadow.bsky.social 's latest TERRIBLE WORLDS standalone novella THE HUNGRY GODS for just 99p!

Now there's a deal that's just too good to miss!

Buy now 👉 https://amzn.to/49T2TNh
The book cover for THE HUNGRY GODS by Adrian Tchaikovsky on an eReader with a tan circle with white text "99p" against a metal background.
February 2, 2026 at 3:47 PM