Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British author of science fiction and fantasy known for his extraordinary prolific output and the range of ideas in his fiction. He won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Children of Time (2016) and the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel for The Tiger and the Wolf (2017). Children of Time is widely considered one of the great SF novels of the 2010s. Born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire in 1972, Tchaikovsky studied zoology and psychology at Leeds University. He worked as a lawyer and a games designer before becoming a full-time author. His Shadows of the Apt series, a ten-volume steampunk fantasy, established him as a major presence in British fantasy. Children of Time, about the uplift of spiders into civilization following humanity's extinction, is his masterwork. He has also written The Tiger and the Wolf, Cage of Souls, Doors of Eden, Final Architecture trilogy, Shards of Earth, and many others. He lives in Leeds.