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Publication Order of Shadows of the Apt Books

Empire in Black and Gold (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dragonfly Falling (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Blood of the Mantis (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Salute the Dark (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Scarab Path (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Sea Watch (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Heirs of the Blade (2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Air War (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
War Master's Gate (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Seal of the Worm (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Afterblight Chronicles Books

The Bloody Deluge (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Even in the Cannon's Mouth (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Children of Time Books

Children of Time (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Children of Ruin (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Children of Memory (2023)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Dogs of War Books

Dogs of War (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Bear Head (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Echoes of the Fall Books

The Tiger and the Wolf (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Bear and the Serpent (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Hyena and the Hawk (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Expert System Books

The Expert System's Brother (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Expert System’s Champion (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of The Final Architecture Books

Shards of Earth (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Eyes of the Void (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Lords of Uncreation (2023)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Tales of the Apt Books

with Juliet E. McKenna, John Gwynne, Frances Hardinge
Spoils of War (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Time for Grief (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
For Love of Distant Shores (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Scent of Tears (With: Juliet E. McKenna,John Gwynne,Frances Hardinge) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of After The War Books

with Justina Robson
Redemption's Blade (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Salvation's Fire (By:Justina Robson) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Made Things Books

Precious Little Things (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Made Things (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Imaginings Books

Colder Greyer Stones (By:Tanith Lee) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Last and First Contacts (By:Stephen Baxter) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Stories from the Northern Road (By:Tony Ballantyne) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Microcosmos (By:Nina Allan) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Feast and Famine (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Twember (By:Steve Tem) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Strange Visitors (By:Eric Brown) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Saint Rebor (By:Adam Roberts) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Sleeps With Angels (By:Dave Hutchinson) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Light Warden (By:Liz Williams) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Mementoes (By:Keith Brooke) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Terrible Worlds: Destinations Books

Walking to Aldebaran (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
One Day All This Will Be Yours (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
And Put Away Childish Things (2023)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Guns of the Dawn (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Spiderlight (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ironclads (2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Cage of Souls (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Firewalkers (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Doors of Eden (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
All the Shards of Earth (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Elder Race (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Day of Ascension (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ogres (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
City of Last Chances (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

Family Business (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Terrible Worlds: Revolutions (2023)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Alt. Sherlock Holmes Books

Two Hundred and Twenty-One Baker Streets (With: ,,,Emma Newman,Gini Koch) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Warhammer 40,000: Age of Sigmar Books

From The Deep (By:) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Neferata Mortarch Of Blood (By:David Annandale) (2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Myths & Revenants (By:David Annandale) (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Bossgrot (By:) (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Warden in the Mountain (By:) (2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Oaths and Conquests (By:William King) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Neferata (By:David Annandale) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Threshold (By:David Annandale) (2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Cursed City (By:C.L. Werner) (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dominion (By:) (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Vintage (By:David Annandale) (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Accursed (By:David Annandale,,,,James Brogden) (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Beasts (By:) (2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Tower of Empty Mirrors (By:) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Tower of Empty Mirrors (By:) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Krenkha Gorogna (By:) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Kragnos: Avatar of Destruction (By:) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Hallowed Ground (By:) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
A Dynasty of Monsters (By:David Annandale) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Soulslayer (By:) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Godsbane (By:) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Godsbane (By:) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Prince Maesa (By:) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Hollow King (By:) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Arkanaut's Oath (By:) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Successors (By:Gary Kloster,,Aaron Dembski-Bowden) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Conquest Unbound: Stories from the Mortal Realms (With: David Annandale,,Gav Thorpe,Gary Kloster) (2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Road to Helsmarch (By:Luke Scull) (2023)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Last Volari (By:Gary Kloster) (2023)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Legends Books

with Juliet E. McKenna, Ian Whates, James Barclay
Legends: Stories in Honour of David Gemmell (With: Tanith Lee,Juliet E. McKenna,Storm Constantine,Stan Nicholls,Ian Whates,Joe Abercrombie,,,Jonathan Green,,James Barclay) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Monstrous Little Voices Books

with , , Emma Newman, Kate Heartfield, Foz Meadows
Coral Bones (By:Foz Meadows) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Course of True Love (By:Kate Heartfield) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Unkindest Cut (By:Emma Newman) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Even in the Cannon's Mouth (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
On the Twelfth Night (By:) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Monstrous Little Voices: New Tales from Shakespeare's Fantasy World (With: ,Emma Newman,Kate Heartfield,Foz Meadows) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of The Afterblight Chronicles Books

School's Out Forever (By:) (2002)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Culled (By:) (2006)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
School's Out (By:) (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Kill or Cure (By:) (2007)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dawn Over Doomsday (By:) (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Arrowhead (By:Paul Kane) (2008)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Operation Motherland (By:) (2009)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Broken Arrow (By:Paul Kane) (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Children's Crusade (By:) (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Arrowland (By:Paul Kane) (2010)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Blood Ocean (By:Weston Ochse) (2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Hooded Man (By:Paul Kane) (2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Orbital Decay (By:) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dead Kelly (By:) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Journal of the Plague Year (By:) (2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Fall Out (By:Simon Guerrier) (2015)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Children of the Cull (By:Cavan Scott) (2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Publication Order of Anthologies

Horror for the Holidays(2011)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Alchemy Press Book of Ancient Wonders(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dark Currents(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Hauntings(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Tales of the Nun and Dragon(2012)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Solaris Rising 2(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Tales of Eve(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Looking Landwards(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Legends: Stories in Honour of David Gemmell(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Time Traveler's Almanac(2013)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Girl at the End of the World Book 2(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Paradox: Stories Inspired by the Fermi Paradox(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Alchemy Press Book of Urban Mythic 2(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Wicked Women(2014)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Private Life of Elder Things(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Summer's End(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Winter Tales(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Ctrl Alt Delight(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Eve of War(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Shakespeare vs. Cthulhu(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Aliens - The Truth is Coming(2016)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Journeys(2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Evil is a Matter of Perspective(2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2017(2017)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Dracula: Rise of the Beast(2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Shoreline of Infinity 11½: Edinburgh International Science Festival Special Edition(2018)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Once Upon a Parsec(2019)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Stories of Hope and Wonder: In Support of UK's Healthcare Workers(2020)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Inferno! Volume 6(2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Burning Brightly(2021)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
The King Must Fall(2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle
Conquest Unbound: Stories from the Mortal Realms(2022)Hardcover  Paperback  Kindle

Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British novel writer who writes in the science fiction fantasy genre. Born Adrian CzajkowsKi in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, Tchaikovsky went on to study Psychology and Zoology at the University of Reading. He later undertook legal studies and is currently a Legal Executive with the Leeds based Commercial Dispute Department of Black Solicitors.

After a frustrating fifteen years of trying to get a book published, he finally got Tor Books to publish his first book Empire in Black and Gold in 2008. However, it was until the publication of the Shadows of the Apt series that Tchaikovsky became a household name in the fantasy science fiction genre.

Born Czajkowski, he asserts that he adopted the name Tchaikovsky as his author name since it was evident that his real name would have been quite difficult for British and American readers to pronounce and spell. This is not an uncommon practice in the UK and American publishing industries as many publishers advise authors with hard to pronounce names to change to Americanized versions to drive sales. After the publication of his first book in the UK, he decided to stick with the name, publishing his German and American editions under his pen name. Though he had wanted his Polish editions to be under Czajkowski, this was not to be so.

His novel Children of Time published in 2015 went on to win the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award for Fiction. For the Shadows of the Apt series, he got a nomination for the British Fantasy Society Award and the David Gemmell Legend Award.

A Summary of Empire in Black and Gold (Shadows of the Apt series) by Adrian Tchaikovksy

Nearly two decades earlier Stenwold had witnessed the invasion of his city Myna by the brutal Wasp Empire in a quest for global domination.

After the experience, he believes that it is his responsibility to try to educate his hometown’s people of the threat posed by the evil Wasp Empire. His efforts are mainly in vain, as his townsmen in Collegium do not believe that the Empire poses any threat to their city. With the Empire now setting its eyes on the city, and its armies and spies crawling all over the land, the city has never been at a greater risk of annihilation.

Meanwhile, his efforts at educating the townspeople have not been all in vain, as he has managed to convince a handful of young people such as his niece Che and the enigmatic Tynisa to join in the resistance againt the Wasp army advance. When the Wasps violently attack his home, he decides to send his team to the Frontline under fire from the invading army. The team flies and gets to the Frontline city of Helleron just in time to face the incoming Wasp army.

Che and Stenwold are known as Bettle-Kinden and are just one of the various human races that draw their inspiration and power from their totem insect. The different human race allies have different totem insects ranging from Ant, Spider, and Mantis all of which have particular powers and skills.

The most skilled and powerful of the totem warriors is Tisamon of the Mantis-kinden clan. Many other totem tribes join the alliance over the weeks leading to the war. As the war takes its toll on the land and the people, it comes to Stenwold’s attention that the Wasps intend to march on the his position on the newly completed railway between Collegium and Helleron to destroy the kinden army in one fell swoop. He gathers his young warriors and prepares for a final fight that he now knows will be in the Lowlands.

The Empire in Black and Gold is one of the best fantasy, science fiction ever to come from a British author. Tchaikovsky’s expertly weaves a story that is action packed and full of tension in a world that takes shape really nicely. The world of the different insect totem tribes and their different skills, motivations and attributes provide a refreshing and fascinating flavor for fantasy fiction. The focus on the development of Stenwold Maker’s character and personality as juxtaposed against the strong willed members of his team makes for some interesting reading

A Summary of Dragonfly Falling (Shadows of the Apt series) by Adrian Tchaikovksy

Adrian Tchaikovksy’s second book in the Shadow of the Apt series, Dragonfly Falling continues with the telling of the adventures of Stenwold and his team of Totho, Salma, Tybisa, Tisamon, Che and others as they battle the evil Wasp Empire. Totho and Salma set out to spy on the advancing Wasp army as it prepares to attack the city of Tark – an Ant-kinden colony. In the meantime, Major Thalric is on a revenge mission after his recent fall from grace. He seeks to kill Stenwold Maker and hasten the destruction of The Lowlands and Collegium. As the Wasps advance, the Emperor is seemingly distracted by a romantic affair.

Adrian Tchaikovsky’s packs the story with action packed and thrilling fight scenes that make for a remarkable story. Nonetheless, while there is relative peace in the Lowlands and Collegium, some people are not convinced that this will last and prefer a return to the old ways. Uctebri, a Mosquito Kinden is the most rabid defender of the old ways and fights for the return to the traditional ways of moral and racial absolutism. Even Stenwold the supposed moral custodian of the progressive kindens is shown as a racist as he forbids his niece from marrying outside her race. While he is bringing the Kindens together, Stenwold still expects the people he is bringing together to not intermarry, since he still believes in racial purity and old age biases towards the different races in the alliance.

The second book continues to develop the characters introduced in book one of the series. New characters such as Uctebri a kind of vampire kinden and Drephos the Imperial auxiliary artificer and the Emperor’s story arc give the book more flavor. Adrian Tchaikovsky greatly expands the world by introducing more kindens and analyzing their ways to drive the story forward.

Dragonfly Falling is a more accomplished book that The Empire in Black and Gold in that it offers better characterization and plot development. Adrian Tchaikovsky’s second book portrays his growth as a writer in that he undertakes in-depth thematic development while continuing to maintain the excitement and thrill of the first book.

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