Adrian Tchaikovsky
@aptshadow.bsky.social
Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Anyone heard of a ‘goodreads choice book club’ in San Francisco ?
November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Anyone heard of a ‘goodreads choice book club’ in San Francisco ?
Games played so far at the writers’ retreat: Codenames, Superfight, Dixit, Once Upon a Time, 7 Wonders, Apples to Apples. Also some writing done.
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Games played so far at the writers’ retreat: Codenames, Superfight, Dixit, Once Upon a Time, 7 Wonders, Apples to Apples. Also some writing done.
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Notice that @aptshadow.bsky.social ’s Children of Time is 99p on kindle in the UK. If you have any interest in SF and haven’t read it, this is a no-brainer.
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Notice that @aptshadow.bsky.social ’s Children of Time is 99p on kindle in the UK. If you have any interest in SF and haven’t read it, this is a no-brainer.
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
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ATTN: SUBMISSIONS FOR THE NEXT @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social ANTHOLOGY OPEN DECEMBER 1ST.
EVERYTHING IS FINE. NOTHING IS WRONG. WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EURASIA.
Start planning your submission to LIE MACHINE now!!
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EVERYTHING IS FINE. NOTHING IS WRONG. WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EURASIA.
Start planning your submission to LIE MACHINE now!!
ironcircus.com/lie-machine/
November 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
ATTN: SUBMISSIONS FOR THE NEXT @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social ANTHOLOGY OPEN DECEMBER 1ST.
EVERYTHING IS FINE. NOTHING IS WRONG. WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EURASIA.
Start planning your submission to LIE MACHINE now!!
ironcircus.com/lie-machine/
EVERYTHING IS FINE. NOTHING IS WRONG. WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EURASIA.
Start planning your submission to LIE MACHINE now!!
ironcircus.com/lie-machine/
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Knowing this episode was coming, together with the recent tribute anthology, motivated me to finally read Mythago Wood, and it was well worth it. Looking forward to hearing what you two have to say.
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Knowing this episode was coming, together with the recent tribute anthology, motivated me to finally read Mythago Wood, and it was well worth it. Looking forward to hearing what you two have to say.
One of my all time favourite books, Holdstock’s great classic of British fantasy. Join us to see what Emma made of it!
Lovelies, if your Sunday needs a cosy, nerdy chat about Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood, then the latest episode of Starship Alexandria can help! starshipalexandria.com/episode-8-my...
Also features @aptshadow.bsky.social mentioning insects and me NOT mentioning ST:TNG (shocking, I know!)
Also features @aptshadow.bsky.social mentioning insects and me NOT mentioning ST:TNG (shocking, I know!)
Starship Alexandria: Episode 8 - Mythago Wood
For our eighth episode of Starship Alexandria, Adrian puts forward the novel Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock, for Emma to consider. Our caveat from the episode: “If you have not read this boo...
starshipalexandria.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
One of my all time favourite books, Holdstock’s great classic of British fantasy. Join us to see what Emma made of it!
Do you remember, when we used to sing…
I obviously have many, but let's go with this one because you can see it loping www.inaturalist.org/observations...
November 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Do you remember, when we used to sing…
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Lovelies, if your Sunday needs a cosy, nerdy chat about Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood, then the latest episode of Starship Alexandria can help! starshipalexandria.com/episode-8-my...
Also features @aptshadow.bsky.social mentioning insects and me NOT mentioning ST:TNG (shocking, I know!)
Also features @aptshadow.bsky.social mentioning insects and me NOT mentioning ST:TNG (shocking, I know!)
Starship Alexandria: Episode 8 - Mythago Wood
For our eighth episode of Starship Alexandria, Adrian puts forward the novel Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock, for Emma to consider. Our caveat from the episode: “If you have not read this boo...
starshipalexandria.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Lovelies, if your Sunday needs a cosy, nerdy chat about Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood, then the latest episode of Starship Alexandria can help! starshipalexandria.com/episode-8-my...
Also features @aptshadow.bsky.social mentioning insects and me NOT mentioning ST:TNG (shocking, I know!)
Also features @aptshadow.bsky.social mentioning insects and me NOT mentioning ST:TNG (shocking, I know!)
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And we'll have a piece of chocolate with every episode!
Starship Alexandria news! For December, instead of a regular episode, @emmanewman.bsky.social and I will be releasing an Advent Calendar with a short episode every day from 1st to 25th December, talking about our favourite TV series.
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
And we'll have a piece of chocolate with every episode!
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By @aptshadow.bsky.social, @bogiperson.bsky.social, @spitkitten.bsky.social, Milena Benini and Emil Minchev, DRACULA: RISE OF THE BEAST tells the story of Dracula from the end of his mortal days (as Vlad Draculesti, Voivode of Wallachia) to the start of Bram Stoker's book.
November 8, 2025 at 10:28 PM
By @aptshadow.bsky.social, @bogiperson.bsky.social, @spitkitten.bsky.social, Milena Benini and Emil Minchev, DRACULA: RISE OF THE BEAST tells the story of Dracula from the end of his mortal days (as Vlad Draculesti, Voivode of Wallachia) to the start of Bram Stoker's book.
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Reminder:
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
2025 Otherwise Award Recommendations « Otherwise Award
Recommend works here for the Otherwise Award jurors to consider!
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November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Reminder:
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
Please submit recommendations by Nov. 14th for the Otherwise Award jury to consider! Nominate works of speculative fiction - #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and more - that expand or explore our notions of gender:
otherwiseaward.org/award/2025-o...
I should just save this image for when people ask me where I write.
November 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I should just save this image for when people ask me where I write.
This story is getting wilder - not only is it a known solitary spider species living communally, but it's cohabiting with a second species, a type of commensalism(?) not before observed. Would be very interested to see if the species are cooperating with weaving/hunting, and how that works.
@aptshadow.bsky.social Children of Time as prophecy?
This ‘arachnid megacity’ may be largest spider’s web ever found
November 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This story is getting wilder - not only is it a known solitary spider species living communally, but it's cohabiting with a second species, a type of commensalism(?) not before observed. Would be very interested to see if the species are cooperating with weaving/hunting, and how that works.
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
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If you've been waiting for the right time to jump into The Eidyn Saga, now's your moment! The Lost War is just 99p all through November on Amazon. It's a #Scottish #EpicFantasy #mystery #conspiracy #thriller found family road trip with a #DnD vibe and a twist. Go, go, go! #FantasyBooks
November 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
If you've been waiting for the right time to jump into The Eidyn Saga, now's your moment! The Lost War is just 99p all through November on Amazon. It's a #Scottish #EpicFantasy #mystery #conspiracy #thriller found family road trip with a #DnD vibe and a twist. Go, go, go! #FantasyBooks
This is a thing of absolute joy.
Finally got my fiancée’s signed House of Open Wounds fan art up on the wall.
Thanks @aptshadow.bsky.social for indulging me with all my questions and requests for book signatures!
Thanks @aptshadow.bsky.social for indulging me with all my questions and requests for book signatures!
November 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
This is a thing of absolute joy.
This is another book that you absolutely should read. An amazing near-future setting with an even more amazing setting nested within it.
So it’s the tenth birthday of Midnight, a book that was nearly but not quite a lot of things. Happy birthday, little book. Still looking good.
November 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is another book that you absolutely should read. An amazing near-future setting with an even more amazing setting nested within it.
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Read WHO KILLED NESSIE? by Paul Cornell and Rachael Smith over lunch. Charming, cryptid muder-mystery, with real heart and real fortean knowledge in that John-Allison-adjacent space I always like to see. This is the Avery Hill edition, but I got the Zoop crowdfunder.
November 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Read WHO KILLED NESSIE? by Paul Cornell and Rachael Smith over lunch. Charming, cryptid muder-mystery, with real heart and real fortean knowledge in that John-Allison-adjacent space I always like to see. This is the Avery Hill edition, but I got the Zoop crowdfunder.
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Halloween might be over, but gothic vibes are never out of season! To this end: Two of my favourite fantasy novels set in distinctly gothic cities: City of Last Chances by @aptshadow.bsky.social and The Gutter Prayer by @mytholder.bsky.social.
My write-up:
wp.me/p8LkPa-35Y
youtu.be/PlmCeM_TEUU
My write-up:
wp.me/p8LkPa-35Y
youtu.be/PlmCeM_TEUU
November 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Halloween might be over, but gothic vibes are never out of season! To this end: Two of my favourite fantasy novels set in distinctly gothic cities: City of Last Chances by @aptshadow.bsky.social and The Gutter Prayer by @mytholder.bsky.social.
My write-up:
wp.me/p8LkPa-35Y
youtu.be/PlmCeM_TEUU
My write-up:
wp.me/p8LkPa-35Y
youtu.be/PlmCeM_TEUU
This really is an excellent book.
"Dazzlingly fresh and original: relentlessly paced, lavishly crafted and always human"
@gautambhatia88.bsky.social
"A gem, breathtaking in scope and concept, pushing the boundaries"
@aptshadow.bsky.social
"As wildly inventive as it is intriguing...a galaxy spanning story"
@rjbarker.bsky.social
@gautambhatia88.bsky.social
"A gem, breathtaking in scope and concept, pushing the boundaries"
@aptshadow.bsky.social
"As wildly inventive as it is intriguing...a galaxy spanning story"
@rjbarker.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This really is an excellent book.
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Today I finished the audiobook of @aptshadow.bsky.social 's Spiderlight. In spirit this mythic quest is Frankenstein's monster meets Good Omens. Bonus features include narration by the author - no nuance is overlooked - and a starring role for a most excellent spider. Highly recommended.
November 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Today I finished the audiobook of @aptshadow.bsky.social 's Spiderlight. In spirit this mythic quest is Frankenstein's monster meets Good Omens. Bonus features include narration by the author - no nuance is overlooked - and a starring role for a most excellent spider. Highly recommended.
New very vague scam format: "I've been following your work... I am very interested in exploring your book and would love to know if it is available on platforms such as Amazon and Goodreads... I would be delighted to support your work by reading it."
November 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
New very vague scam format: "I've been following your work... I am very interested in exploring your book and would love to know if it is available on platforms such as Amazon and Goodreads... I would be delighted to support your work by reading it."
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We've just launched the Kickstarter for my gamebook saga 'The Curse of Cthulhu Books 1 & 2'! Travel to a remote Scottish island, infiltrate a deadly cult and find the idol - or die trying!
Art by @willirobertsart.bsky.social & @lyndondraws.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sim...
Art by @willirobertsart.bsky.social & @lyndondraws.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sim...
November 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We've just launched the Kickstarter for my gamebook saga 'The Curse of Cthulhu Books 1 & 2'! Travel to a remote Scottish island, infiltrate a deadly cult and find the idol - or die trying!
Art by @willirobertsart.bsky.social & @lyndondraws.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sim...
Art by @willirobertsart.bsky.social & @lyndondraws.bsky.social
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sim...