For the love of God, Montresor!

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.

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...

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.

Love this shoe shop logo though I think it would give serious dipterists conniptions.

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...

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!’

Just signed a few Goldsboro special editions of Pretenders to the Throne of God (Tyrant Philosophers book 4)

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.

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.

I'm talking with Gareth in Cardiff as part of the Children of Strife release tour (full details here adriantchaikovsky.com/events.html)

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.

The True Stories Behind The Photographs In The Habitat Catalogues Of The 1970s: www.tom-cox.com/the-true-sto...

BTW there are also a couple of other Kindle deals today on @aptshadow.bsky.social books - The Hungry Gods and Human Resources.

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.

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

New paint! My first Horus Heresy stuff. Mostly it hasn’t interested me because space marines are space marines but these guys…

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

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

A lovely (if somewhat spoilers!) review of Children of Strife (out March) - also includes a rundown of the previous books in brief.

Indiegogo currently have an offer on ‘most anticipated books’ including Children of Strife. www.indigo.ca/en-ca/sale/m... - lasts until 8th Feb and it’s 25% off.

"In these astonishing works, de Bodard takes us somewhere unique. A labyrinthine region of dark imagination unlike anything the genre has seen before. Simultaneously an alternative history and a wholly fantastical landscape" @aptshadow.bsky.social

You know what; here's a story about actual grief involving AIs and simulations of dead people clarkesworldmagazine.com/debodard_01_...

New website post: the @goonhammer.com 2025 award results adriantchaikovsky.com

I've noticed a microgenre shift in SF over the last year - or possibly just in the books I've come across. Specifically, a bit of a boom in big concept space opera books working in the Banks/Hamilton ideaspace. Meaning SF that simultaneously delivers a strong action storyline against a backdrop

The Shroud by @aptshadow.bsky.social is currently 99p on Kindle

Zephyr is an anarchist TTRPG in which you journey a sentient. walking landmass, live through myths, and take on epic Obligations to connect far off communities through sentimental bonds! Get it w/free shipping in the US at tabletopbookshelf.com/products/zep... and elsewhere at araukana.com/store

Delighted to see Shroud and Lives of Bitter Rain on the Locus rec list - if you’ve enjoyed and would like to vote there’s a link to their polling form in the article.

Got to watch a lot of stuff this weekend, unusually for Me. As well as Flow, I got series 1 of Murderbot, which was excellent, and de Toro’s Frankenstein, which I also enjoyed, especially Elordi’s creature.

So monthly #UKSFFBookBargains time. Lets start with @aptshadow.bsky.social since his books are always worth a look. Shroud is a delightful first contact story in which two humans crash on a truly nasty planet www.amazon.co.uk/Shroud-gripp... www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

And there's more @aptshadow.bsky.social! Hungry Gods is his most recent (I think) Terrible Worlds novella, in which the Gods walk the Earth, rather to Earth's distress.99p, as will be anything in this list I don't mention a price for. www.amazon.co.uk/Hungry-Gods-...

2025 GOONHAMMER BOOK AWARD WINNER More congratulations for @aptshadow.bsky.social for winning the @goonhammer.com Best Black Library Writer for 2025! www.goonhammer.com/the-2025-goo... #Warhammer #BookSky #BlackLibrary

Finally saw the animation ‘Flow’ last night. Very beautiful, enjoyed it immensely. In retrospect (and not to detract from my admiration) not sure if there was a deep meaning to everything that went on,

City of Last chances by @aptshadow.bsky.social An occupied city with oppressive, factional government, ICE-style raids, Students leading Academics, gambling, theft, black markets, a dangerous heist, all while a rebellion brews and erupts as competing warlords plan for the aftermath. But with magic.

I am so looking forward to people getting their eyes on this. Mike, Pippa and Simon have done an amazing job with it.

It's taken me ages to finish around looking after the 7-month old, but I finally finished @aptshadow.bsky.social's Alien Clay, which is one of the best books I've read in ages. Icky, squirmy, unsettling and compelling on the themes of alien biology, fascism and collective action.

Preorder campaign for the re-release of my Gothic Paris books -(March 10th!!!): pre-order any of the books in the series & get an EXCLUSIVE ebook with bonus shenanigans involving Fallen angels, a birthday party and a decidedly over-friendly magical fungus www.aliettedebodard.com/2026/01/23/d...

bookshop.org/p/books/guns... Finished "Guns of the Dawn" by @aptshadow.bsky.social I picked it up as part of a Humble Bundle and started here because it is a standalone. I'm glad I did. Interesting people and relationships amidst compelling cirucmstances. Honor, growth, and friendship. #booksky

Don't usually jump on bandwagons but... yourself but as a cartoon

Well I might just have written the most F’d-up first chapter in my career.

Latest anti-writer scam is a fake Goodreads Reading Challenge, using a gmail rather than a goodreads domain email. At this point any genuine contact is going to get lost in the torrent of spam. AI semi-targeted mass messaging is the parasite that kills the host.

soulmuppet-store.co.uk times are hard for games designers. please buy my books. you get books with beautiful art and fantastic writing, and i get money to pay interest on business debt. it's a two way victory! everyone wins.

Anyone had any contact with "More than a classic book club" and/or Aida Kane, based out of Toronto? Another day, another contact that might be genuine and might be a scam. There's a Meetup page, but I don't know if that means anything, and the events they have up are all for literary, not genre.

Tonight! 8:30pm UK time! Live in the Discord with @aliettedebodard.com ! discord.gg/jqDpubdP

Got the cat new brand of food called ‘Revelation’, which seems to promise more than it can deliver.

Just boosting this again. Please do have a listen - leave a comment / like if you can.

Btw, Goldsboro still has signed+numbered copies with their amazing sprayed edges! Weirdly it doesn’t show up when searching „Adrian Tchaikovsky“, but it’s not sold out yet: goldsborobooks.com/products/pre...

I've sensed a wry streak of humour in even @aptshadow.bsky.social's loftiest sci-fi novels, and this comes to the fore in #ServiceModel, a post-apocalyptic robot odyssey with shades of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. It's farcical, absurd, satirical, deeply philosophical and really good fun!

Next month (uk) - the fourth (main) Tyrant Philosophers book, with my most bombastic ever title.

Wait, is this what the little people you see when you eat that mushroom are doing with their time?