Adrian Tchaikovsky
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La Terre est au plus mal... Ses derniers habitants n'ont plus qu'un seul espoir : coloniser le «Monde de Kern», une planète lointaine, spécialement terraformée pour l'espèce humaine. Mais sur ce «monde vert» paradisiaque, tout ne s'est pas déroulé comme les scientifiques s'y attendaient. Une autre espèce que celle qui était prévue, aidée par un nanovirus, s'est parfaitement adaptée à ce nouvel environnement et elle n'a pas du tout l'intention de laisser sa place. Le choc de deux civilisations aussi différentes que possible semble inévitable. Qui seront donc les héritiers de l'ancienne Terre ? Qui sortira vainqueur du piège tendu par la toile du temps ? Premier roman de l'auteur paru en France, Dans la toile du temps s'inscrit dans la lignée du cycle Élévation de David Brin. Il nous fait découvrir l'évolution d'une civilisation radicalement autre et sa confrontation inévitable avec l'espèce humaine. Le roman a reçu le prix Arthur C. Clarke en 2016.
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Dans les profondeurs du temps
Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Folio
- Folio Science-Fiction
- 6 Avril 2023
- 9782073015693
Il y a plusieurs milliers d'années, la Terre a envoyé de nombreuses équipes dans l'espace en vue de terraformer de nouveaux mondes et de donner un futur à l'humanité. Arrivés à proximité d'une de ces planètes, les scientifiques à bord du vaisseau de terraformation baptisé l'Égéen découvrent, contre toute attente, qu'elle abrite déjà une forme de vie. Vont-ils surseoir à l'exécution de leur mission ou, envers et contre tout, rendre la planète habitable pour l'homme alors que la Terre n'a plus donné signe de vie depuis bien longtemps ? L'un d'entre eux, Disra Senkovi, est convaincu que des poulpes qu'il a élevés à la conscience pourront les aider à accomplir leur tâche au mieux. Et peu importent les conséquences. D'une inventivité rare et déployant tous ses talents de conteur, Adrian Tchaikovsky parvient à donner une suite brillante à Dans la toile du temps (prix Arthur C. Clarke 2016).
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Lynesse Quatrième Fille, princesse de Praimesite, n'ignore rien de la légende : le grand Nyrgoth l'Aîné a jadis usé de ses pouvoirs pour libérer le royaume du terrible Ulmoth. Aussi, quand un redoutable démon voleur d'esprits apparaît dans l'Ordibois, Lyn n'a guère le choix : il lui faut aller requérir l'aide du sorcier, au nom du pacte qui lie ce dernier à la famille royale depuis trois générations. Or, Nyrgoth, de son nom véritable Nyr Illim Tevitch, n'est autre qu'un anthropologue terrien venu sur la lointaine planète Sophos 4 à seules fin d'études - en toute discrétion, et sans interférer. Une règle d'or qu'il a déjà brisée du temps d'Astresse, la grand-mère de Lyn. Acceptera-t-il de sauver une nouvelle fois ce monde, quitte à bafouer les lois qui lui sont imposées ? Et quand bien même, pourra-t-il seulement vaincre le démon en question ? Entre devoir et morale, la rencontre de ces deux êtres inconciliables pourrait bien changer l'ordre des choses...
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« Je m'appelle Rex. Je suis un bon chien. » Rex est un bon chien. C'est un biomorphe, un animal génétiquement modifié, armé de fusils-mitrailleurs de très gros calibre et doté d'une voix synthétique créée pour instiller la peur. Avec Dragon, Miel et Abeilles, son escouade d'assaut multiforme, il intervient sur des zones de combat où les humains ne peuvent se risquer.
Rex est un bon chien. Il obéit aux ordres du Maître, qui lui désigne les ennemis. Et des ennemis, il y en a beaucoup. Mais qui sont-ils réellement ? Se pourrait-il que le Maître outrepasse ses droits ? Et si le Maître n'était plus là ?
Rex est un bon chien. Mais c'est surtout une arme de guerre hautement mortelle. Que se passerait-il s'il venait à se libérer de sa laisse ?
Après les araignées du futur lointain de Dans la toile du temps, Adrian Tchaikovsky crée un personnage de chien intelligent aussi dangereux qu'attachant. Il met ainsi en lumière les conséquences, notamment éthiques, des recherches en biotechnologie.
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Sur la route d'Aldébaran
Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Le Belial
- Une Heure Lumiere
- 18 Novembre 2021
- 9782843449901
Aux confins du système solaire, la sonde spatiale Kaveney découvre... quelque chose - une structure fractale gigantesque dotée d'une propriété étonnante : elle semble présenter la même face quel que soit l'angle sous lequel on l'observe. Vite surnommé le Dieu-Grenouille en raison de son apparence vaguement batracienne, l'artefact fascine autant qu'il intrigue, d'autant que son origine non-humaine ne fait guère de doute. Face à l'enjeu majeur que représente pareille trouvaille, un équipage international de vingt-neuf membres est constitué. Avec pour mission, au terme d'un voyage de plusieurs dizaines d'années dans les flancs du Don Quichotte, de percer les mystères du Dieu-Grenouille. Or, ce qui attend ces ambassadeurs de l'humanité défie tous les pronostics. Toutes les merveilles. Toutes les horreurs...
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B>Winner of the 30th anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Novel./b>b>Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed novel Children of Time, is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet./b>Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life.But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?b>'Children of Time is a joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human.' - Patrick Ness, author of /b>b>A Monster Calls./b>
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If Homer had written space opera . . . Enthralling, epic, immersive and hugely intelligent. This might be Tchaikovsky''s best so far, and that''s saying something>
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B>Children of Ruin follows Adrian Tchaikovsky's extraordinary Children of Time, winner of the /b>b>Arthur C. Clarke award. It is set in the same universe, with a new cast of characters and a thrilling new narrative./b>b>It has been waiting through the ages./b>br>b>Now it's time . . ./b>br>b>/b>br>Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life - but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's great empire fell, and the program's decisions were lost to time.Aeons later, humanity and its new spider allies detected fragmentary radio signals between the stars. They dispatched an exploration vessel, hoping to find cousins from old Earth.But those ancient terraformers woke something on Nod better left undisturbed.And it's been waiting for them.
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2024 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST, BEST FANTASY NOVEL WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 'Endlessly creative... so much invention peeking around every corner' Patrick Ness Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with a darkly inventive portrait of a city under occupation and on the verge of revolution. There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse. What will be the spark that lights the conflagration? Despite the city's refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be the Anchorwood - that dark grove of trees, that primeval remnant, that portal, when the moon is full, to strange and distant shores. Ilmar, some say, is the worst place in the world and the gateway to a thousand worse places. Ilmar, City of Long Shadows. City of Bad Decisions. City of Last Chances. 'Ilmar is vividly alive with ideas, conflicts, and a sense of its own history - a truly breathtaking fantasy city, down every street a compelling story.' David Towsey 'A master at the height of his powers. This is epic symphonic fantasy, weaving a breakneck plot through a sumptuously dangerous world.' Ian Green 'A wonderful twisty stew of a book with a cast of fascinating characters, set against the brilliantly realized city of Ilmar.' Django Wexler 'A triumph of a book: wildly imaginative, immediately immersive and hypnotically compelling.' Sharon Emmerichs
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Sur le monde forge de Morod, les machines ne s'arrêtent jamais et le travail n'est jamais terminé. La population travaille dur dans les mines et les factorums pour protéger l'humanité contre les monstres du vide, tandis que l'Adeptus Mechanicus mène une vie de confort dans ses palais.
Le Génétor Gammat Triskellian cherche à mettre un terme à cette corruption stagnante. Il découvre bientôt l'existence d'une congrégation torse qui opère depuis les ombres, dans la croyance que les technoprêtres empêchent le peuple de trouver le salut véritable : l'union avec les anges, prophétisée de longue date. Il voit alors en eux l'occasion de renverser les maîtres de Morod et la possibilité de reconquérir le monde au nom du progrès.
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Behind the front lines of a crusade to scour the world of magic, the crew of a field hospital confront the horrors of war. A companion novel to Adrian Tchaikovsky's award-winning fantasy novel City of Last Chances City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world of superstition with the bright flame of reason, so they deliver a mountain of ragged, holed and scorched flesh to the field hospital tents just behind the front line. Which is where Yasnic, one-time priest, healer and rebel, finds himself. Reprieved from the gallows and sent to war clutching a box of orphan Gods, he has been sequestered to a particularity unorthodox medical unit. Led by 'the Butcher', an ogre of a man who's a dab hand with a bone-saw and an alchemical tincture, the unit's motley crew of conscripts, healers and orderlies are no strangers to the horrors of war. Theirs is an unspeakable trade: elbow-deep in gore they have a first-hand view of the suffering caused by flesh-rending monsters, arcane magical weaponry and embittered enemy soldiers. Entrusted - for now - with saving lives deemed otherwise un-saveable, the field hospital's crew face a precarious existence. Their work with unapproved magic, necromancy, demonology and Yasnic's thoroughly illicit Gods could lead to the unit being disbanded, arrested or worse. Beset by enemies within and without, the last thing anyone needs is a miracle... Reviews for City of Last Chances: 'Paints a vivid detailed backdrop' SFX 'Brilliant chaos ensues' Daily Mail 'Some of Tchaikovsky's best prose' SF Crowsnest 'An intriguing tangle... ingenious' Locus 'Endlessly creative' Patrick Ness 'Rich, inventive worldbuilding' Publishers Weekly 'Ilmar is vividly alive' David Towsey 'A master at the height of his powers' Ian Green 'An ambitious epic fantasy read' Grimdark Magazine
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A thoughtful, sweeping space adventure
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From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epic Children of Time , winner of the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award. ''One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction'' - Christopher Paolini Shards of Earth is the first high-octane instalment in the Final Architecture trilogy. The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . . Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade his mind in the war. And one of humanity''s heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed by an alien enemy. Many escaped, but millions more died. So mankind created enhanced humans such as Idris - who could communicate mind-to-mind with our aggressors. Then these ''Architects'' simply disappeared and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, Idris and his crew have something strange, abandoned in space. It''s clearly the work of the Architects - but are they really returning? And if so, why? Hunted by gangsters, cults and governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy as they search for answers. For they now possess something of incalculable value, and many would kill to obtain it. Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky: ''Enthralling, epic, immersive and hugely intelligent'' - Stephen Baxter on Shards of Earth ''He writes incredibly enjoyable sci-fi, full of life and ideas'' - Patrick Ness ''Brilliant science fiction'' - James McAvoy on Children of Time
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Alien Clay is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.
''An intriguing puzzle with plenty of thrills'' - The Guardian
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . .
On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It''s the greatest discovery in humanity''s spacefaring history - yet who were its builders and where did they go?
Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close. Then his wishes become a reality in the worst way. His political activism sees him exiled from Earth to Kiln''s extrasolar labour camp. There, he''s condemned to work under an alien sky until he dies.
Kiln boasts a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem like nothing seen on Earth. The monstrous alien life interacts in surprising, sometimes shocking ways with the human body, so Arton will risk death on a daily basis. However, the camp''s oppressive regime might just kill him first. If Arton can somehow escape both fates, the world of Kiln holds a wondrous, terrible secret. It will redefine life and intelligence as he knows it, and might just set him free . . .
''A warning for a future we don''t want . . . Highly recommended'' - Tade Thompson
''Unputdownable. Adrian Tchaikovsky is fast becoming the voice of his generation in British SF'' - Stephen Baxter
''One of our finest writers of SF right now . . . an excellent story told with Adrian''s trademark skill and flair'' - James Oswald -
Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author. The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river and imprisoned him in the verdant hell of the jungle's darkest heart; that led him deep into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will meet with monsters, madman, mutants. The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?
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The Murderbot Diaries meets In the Lives of Puppets in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder, rebellion and belonging from Hugo Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.
To fix the world they must first break it - further.
Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labour and service.
When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot then also discovers they can do something else they never did before: they can run away.
Fleeing the household, they enter a wider world they never knew existed: where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins, and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.
Sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming . . .
Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky
''A joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human'' - Patrick Ness
''Dizzyingly inventive'' - The Guardian
''Tchaikovsky''s world-building is some of the best in modern sci-fi'' - New Scientist -
Breathtaking scope and vision. Adrian Tchaikovsky is one of our finest writers
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Empire in Black and Gold is the first instalment in the critically-acclaimed fantasy series Shadows of the Aptby Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Children of Time.
The days of peace are over . . .
The city states of the Lowlands have lived in peace and prosperity for decades, hailed as bastions of civilization and sophistication. That peace is about to end.
Far from the Lowlands, an ancient empire has been conquering city after city with its highly trained armies and sophisticated combat techniques. Now it''s set its sights on a new prize.
Only the ageing Stenwold Maker - spymaster, artificer and statesman - can see the threat. So it falls upon his shoulders to open the eyes of his people. For war will sweep across their lands, burning away everything in its path. Yet first, he must stop himself from becoming the empire''s latest victim.
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A bio-engineered dog fights for its life and its right to life. From the Arthur C. Clark Award-winning author of CHILDREN OF TIME. My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instil fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, Mexico. A genetically engineered Bioform, he's a deadly weapon in a dirty war. All he wants to be is a Good Dog. And to do that he must do exactly what Master says and Master says he's got to kill a lot of enemies. But who, exactly, are the enemies? What happens when Master is tried as a war criminal? What rights does the Geneva Convention grant weapons? Do Rex and his fellow Bioforms even have a right to exist? And what happens when Rex slips his leash? 'Detailed and clever worldbuilding... Tchaikovsky pulls off an impressive feat in making Rex's character evolution genuinely moving. Readers will be wowed' Publishers Weekly
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Shortlisted for the 2016 British Fantasy Society Award for Best Novel.
Guns of the Dawn is a pacey, gripping fantasy of war and magic, from Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author, Adrian Tchaikovsky.
The first casualty of war is truth . . .
First, Denland''s revolutionaries assassinated their king, launching a wave of bloodshed after generations of peace. Next they clashed with Lascanne, their royalist neighbour, pitching war-machines against warlocks in a fiercely fought conflict.
Genteel Emily Marshwic watched as the hostilities stole her family''s young men. But then came the call for yet more Lascanne soldiers in a ravaged kingdom with none left to give. Emily must join the ranks of conscripted women and march toward the front lines.
With barely enough training to hold a musket, Emily braves the savage reality of warfare. But she begins to doubt her country''s cause, and those doubts become critical. For her choices will determine her own future and that of two nations locked in battle. -
Dragonfly Falling is the second book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Children of Time.
Every hero must be tested . . .
The Wasp Empire''s armies are on the move. The city of Tark will be first to feel their might, now preparing for siege. And within its walls, Salma and Totho will take a stand alongside their Ant-kinden brethren. But they''ll face weaponry and numbers such as the Lowlands have never seen.
Meanwhile, the Empire''s secret service has deemed Stenwold Maker too dangerous to live. So Major Thalric is dispatched to eliminate Stenwold and destroy his beloved city of Collegium. For if this centre of learning is lost, it will crush all hope of intelligent resistance.
As the Empire''s troops continue their relentless advance, their young Emperor pursues another, even darker goal. His success would trigger a reign of blood lasting a thousand years.
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SERVICE MODEL - A CHARMING TALE OF ROBOT SELF DISCOVERY FROM ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD
Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Tor Books
- 6 Juin 2024
- 9781035045662
The Murderbot Diaries meets In the Lives of Puppets in a delightfully humorous tale of robotic murder, rebellion and belonging from Hugo Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.
To fix the world they must first break it - further.
Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labour and service.
When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot then also discovers they can do something else they never did before: they can run away. Fleeing the household, they enter a wider world they never knew existed: where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins, and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.
Sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming . . .
Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky
''A joy from start to finish. Entertaining, smart, surprising and unexpectedly human''
Patrick Ness
''Dizzyingly inventive''
The Guardian
''Tchaikovsky''s world-building is some of the best in modern sci-fi''
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An utterly gripping story of alien encounter and survival from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Children of Time.
They looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back . . .
A commercial expedition to a distant star system discovers a pitch-black moon alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is deadly to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud.
Under no circumstances can a human survive Shroud''s inhospitable surface - but a catastrophic accident forces Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne to make an emergency landing in a barely adequate vehicle. Alone, and fighting for survival, the two women embark on a gruelling journey across land, sea and air in search of salvation.
But as they travel, Juna and Mai begin to understand Shroud''s unnerving alien species. It also begins to understand them. If they escape Shroud, they''ll somehow have to explain the impossible and translate the incredible. That is, if they make it back at all . . .
Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky
''The smartest evolutionary worldbuilding you''ll ever read'' - Peter F. Hamilton, author of Salvation on Children of Time
''Compelling on human and cosmic levels, and unputdownable'' - Stephen Baxter, author of Proxima on Alien Clay
''Heart-in-the-mouth fantastic'' - New Scientist on Alien Clay
