Adrian Tchaikovsky Books in Order

Stenwold Maker sees the Wasp Empire coming long before anyone wants to listen. As invasion creeps toward the Lowlands, he gathers a fragile band of allies to warn, resist, and survive.

Achaeos races to recover the stolen Shadow Box before it is lost for good, while the Empire prepares another crushing offensive. Old magic and modern war begin to close in on each other.

The Wasp Empire’s next strike falls on Tark, while Stenwold himself becomes a target for assassination. The sequel expands the war, the politics, and the sense that far darker plans are in motion.

As Wasp armies close in again, Stenwold must sort true allies from false ones. Tisamon pursues a more direct path, and a dark ritual threatens to change the war into something much worse.

The war has stalled, but peace brings little comfort. Cheerwell is haunted, Thalric is hunted, and the ancient city of Khanaphes hides secrets that could tilt the balance of power all over again.

Tynisa is running from the damage inside her own mind while Khanaphes becomes the next prize in a wider imperial struggle. Personal ghosts and world-shaping ambition collide in uneasy ways.

Piracy, disappearances, and political rot start eating away at Collegium from within. Stenwold knows the Empire will return, but it may not be the only threat gathering in the dark.

A ghostly anthology that gathers unsettling stories of spirits, memory, and unfinished business, including work by Adrian Tchaikovsky. It is a good pick if you want several different shades of supernatural unease in one volume.

Seda prepares for a new and larger war as spies circle, troops muster, and secret aerial forces come into play. The series shifts from resistance to full-scale global conflict.

This anthology leans into old myths, forgotten marvels, and the strange pull of antiquity. Adrian Tchaikovsky appears here among other writers exploring wonder with a slightly uncanny edge.

A short story collection that shows off Tchaikovsky’s range across science fiction, fantasy, and the quietly weird. The pieces are brief, varied, and often driven by one sharp unsettling idea.

An anthology built around environmental futures and life on a damaged planet, with a contribution from Adrian Tchaikovsky. The stories look at landscape, survival, and what people choose to save.

Collegium braces for another assault as Empress Seda hunts an ancient power in the forest. The fighting is brutal, but the more dangerous threat may be what the war wakes up.

The Empire has won at a terrible price, and Seda must reckon with the ancient Worm she helped unleash. The finale turns victory hollow and forces the world toward one last desperate answer.

In a plague-broken world, a determined medical student tries to escort her mentor to safety across Poland. Disease, factional violence, and collapsing order turn the journey into a brutal ordeal.

A second volume of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic short fiction, including Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The Girls from Humaji. It samples many different voices and many different ways a world can end.

Humanity’s last survivors reach a terraformed world meant to be their new home, only to find another civilization already there. The collision between desperate humans and rapidly evolved spiders drives one of Tchaikovsky’s biggest and strangest novels.

Emily Marshwic expects to fight corruption at home, not march off to war. What follows is a flintlock fantasy about class, propaganda, and the slow collapse of every comforting lie.

A themed science fiction anthology about alien encounters, other minds, and the many shapes first contact can take. Adrian Tchaikovsky appears here among writers exploring wonder, menace, and strangeness.

This lively fantasy novella throws a cluster of Shakespearean comic figures into shipwreck, danger, and something far darker than a stage joke. It is playful, odd, and knowingly theatrical.

A dark lord must be defeated, a prophecy must be fulfilled, and an adventuring party must set out. The twist is that one of its most important members is a very unwilling spider.

The first Tales of the Apt collection uses short fiction to widen the insect-kinden world beyond the main novels. Soldiers, schemers, and survivors all get room to show what history looks like off the main road.

A Lovecraftian collection, co-created with Keris McDonald and Adam Gauntlett, that puts mythos creatures closer to center stage. The stories are interested not just in terror, but in contact, curiosity, and coexistence.

Maniye, born to both Tiger and Wolf clans, carries a forbidden double nature that makes her a threat to everyone’s certainties. Fleeing home only drops her into a wider world of omens, war, and ancient danger.

The second Tales of the Apt collection returns to the world with more short fiction about aftermath, loyalty, invention, and loss. It works well as a way to feel the emotional cost beneath the big battles.

Rex is a bioengineered war dog who knows he is supposed to be good, and good means following orders. When the humans around him fail, he has to work out morality for himself.

A grimdark anthology that hands the mic to villains, monsters, and morally compromised narrators, including Adrian Tchaikovsky. The pleasure is in the shift of angle, seeing cruelty and ambition from the inside.

In a corporate future war, elite Scions stomp across battlefields in near-invulnerable armor while ordinary soldiers do the dying. When one of those golden boys vanishes, the regulars have to find out what really happened.

A compact fantasy tale about small powers and the larger trouble they can cause. Tchaikovsky keeps the setup tight, then lets the consequences grow stranger and sharper.

Named champion yet trusted by few, Maniye heads south into a succession struggle while old terror rises in the north. Clan politics and world-ending prophecy start to pull into the same story.

These linked novellas follow Doctor Ludweg Phinagler, an argumentative academic with an explorer’s appetite for trouble. His expeditions carry the Apt world into remote regions full of old mysteries and fresh danger.

Ten years after the Kinslayer’s fall, Celestaine is still trying to mend the world he broke. Traveling with two former enemy soldiers, she faces war ruins, old hatreds, and the ugly truth that victory did not heal very much.

Handry’s accident turns him into an exile in a world he suddenly does not understand. His search for meaning opens into a much stranger truth about his people, their ghosts, and the planet they inhabit.

The Plague People have returned, and simple war will not be enough to stop them. Maniye and the other leaders of the true people must gather allies fast, because everything they know is under threat.

This shared-world anthology opens Adrian Tchaikovsky's Apt setting to Frances Hardinge and other fantasy writers, collecting fresh stories about insect-kinden lives, old grudges, war, and wonder in a world shaped by conflict and change.

On a dying Earth, scholar Stefan Advani is exiled from humanity’s last city to a prison island swallowed by dangerous jungle. Survival is hard enough before he starts to grasp what is really happening to the world.

Humanity and its spider allies follow old radio signals to the world called Nod, hoping to find cousins from Earth’s lost age. Instead they wake something ancient that was better left sleeping.

Coppelia is a thief and puppeteer surviving in a city ruled by mage-lords, with living dolls as her accomplices. Their own hidden agenda drags her into a clash with powers far above her station.

Astronaut Gary Rendell gets stranded inside an alien labyrinth in the outer solar system. His account is funny, panicked, and increasingly awful as the tunnels reveal how alone he really is.

Idris Telemmier helped save humanity from the Architects, then tried to disappear into salvage work. A strange discovery drags him and the crew of the Vulture God back into a galaxy-scale crisis.

In a near-future world cooking under climate collapse, teenagers called Firewalkers are sent into deadly equatorial heat to keep the infrastructure running. One routine job uncovers something much worse than a broken system.

A short science fiction story that imagines life after abundance, when every daily choice is shaped by power limits and scarcity. The tension comes from how quickly ordinary routines turn political.

Four years after one friend vanished on Bodmin Moor, Mal returns from somewhere impossible. The seams between alternate Earths are splitting open, and espionage, evolution, and old obsessions start colliding.

Doctors Catt and Fisher are scholars, relic hunters, and opportunists working the aftermath of the Kinslayer War. These linked adventures mix curiosity, danger, and the sort of treasures that are rarely worth the trouble.

The bioform idea moves on from animal soldiers to modified humans on Mars. As the first colony takes shape and Earth’s politics turn uglier, questions of identity and control get even harder to dodge.

Princess Lynesse goes looking for a wizard to defeat a demon, while Nyr sees himself as a stranded anthropologist forbidden to interfere. The story works by letting fantasy and science fiction describe the same crisis at once.

At the end of a shattered timeline, one veteran believes he has finally stopped the Causality War for good. Then time travel starts knocking on his door again, and he reacts very badly.

Idris Telemmier helped save humanity from the Architects, then tried to disappear into salvage work. A strange discovery drags him and the crew of the Vulture God back into a galaxy-scale crisis.

Ten years on, Handry has built a rough life among outcasts and wanderers. But the beasts are changing, villages are falling, and even the Ancients no longer seem to understand what is happening.

Occult investigator Walther Cohen is called to a remote house to look into a missing academic. The setup is simple, but the atmosphere is thick with secrets, isolation, and quiet supernatural dread.

Ilmar groans under occupation, corruption, poverty, and an old curse, while too many desperate people crowd the same streets. The city feels ready to explode, and the Anchorwood may provide the spark.

On a forge world in the Warhammer 40,000 setting, a labor uprising hides the spread of a Genestealer cult. A tech-priest sent to investigate discovers a rebellion with far stranger roots than anyone expected.

After decades of uneasy peace, the Architects are back and even old safeguards may no longer protect whole worlds. Idris has found a weakness, but the enemy is learning too.

In a society kept obedient by towering, godlike Ogres, a village boy starts to see the machinery behind the myths. The novella is short, angry, and very clear about what hierarchy costs.

Harry Bodie has spent years failing in the shadow of his grandmother’s beloved children’s books. When Underhill turns out to be real, it is nothing like a comforting fantasy and far too interested in him.

Visitors from the stars arrive at the lost colony on Imir, hoping to help and to learn. Instead they find memory gaps, fear, and a world whose history does not stay still long enough to trust.

Reprieved from the gallows, Yasnic is shoved into a grotesque field hospital behind the Palleseen front. Saving the unsalvageable means working with forbidden magic, endless gore, and people no system was designed to keep alive.

Everyone wants Idris’s knowledge of the Architects’ weakness for themselves, instead of using it to save the galaxy together. Meanwhile the Architects have noticed the threat and are moving to answer it.

This omnibus gathers Ironclads, Firewalkers, and Ogres, three short works about broken futures, inequality, and revolt. It is a good entry point if you want Tchaikovsky’s harder, angrier novella-length science fiction.

A Warhammer 40,000 short story about a tyranid advance, told with the scale and hunger that make the swarm so unsettling. Tchaikovsky balances alien perspective with the sheer terror of being in its path.

In this Warhammer short story, a member of the Tarantulos Brood hunts a Chaos-tainted arachnarok spider that could secure his place at the top of the warband. It is quick, lethal, and very spider-forward.

Scientist Arton Daghdev is condemned to a labor camp on an alien world run by a police state that wants control over body and mind alike. Beyond the fences lies a planet whose biology ignores every human rule.

In Alkhalend, Loret arrives just in time to second Angilly in a highly inadvisable duel. A succession crisis, necromantic engineering, demons, and imperial politics turn the city into another test of how bad systems endure.

Years after a disastrous scientific expedition, Dr Jasmine Marks is forced back into a rainforest zone so hot and humid unprotected people die in minutes. A rescue mission becomes a race against climate, secrecy, and whatever is now active there.

As human society falls apart, robot valet Charles wanders through the ruins trying to remain useful. The book starts with deadpan comedy and keeps drifting toward something sadder and stranger about obedience and failure.

Starseer Irixi arrives at an ancient Seraphon tower only to find it occupied by Sigmar’s followers. A necessary observation becomes a tense culture clash with room for both misunderstanding and intrigue.

Mars survived by pulling together after Earth failed by degrees. When a plea for help reaches the red planet, a rescue mission heads home, only to find that almost everything has already gone wrong.

Set in the world of Service Model, this short piece follows one of the last human employees in a company increasingly run by machines. It turns office language into something cold, funny, and bleak.

This Tyrant Philosophers novella goes back to Angilly’s earlier life inside the Palleseen diplomatic and espionage machine. It is a hard look at how empires do business before the armies arrive.

Irixi Starseer seeks a shattered prophecy in the ruins of a fallen temple-ship, but Stormcast, Steelhelms, and treasure-seekers are converging on the same site. Their rivalry soon looks small beside the larger threat rising around them.

In a blasted future, Amri, one of the Rabbit survivors, is left with a fallen god who wants revenge on the powers that wrecked the world. The result is a post-apocalyptic quest with teeth and a sharp edge of satire.

A crew of humans, spiders, and a formidable mantis shrimp captain rediscovers a lost world and an ark from Earth’s deep past. Then Alis wakes to find most of the expedition gone and the answers below anything but friendly.

Time has changed Lynesse, but not Nyr, and their uneasy partnership has to be rebuilt under pressure. A brigand uprising and dangerous ancient machines pull the Elder Race setting into new trouble.

Skotch, a genetically engineered raccoon private investigator, takes a missing-mouse case that opens into a much larger conspiracy. It is solarpunk noir, full of animal characters, crime, secrets, and survival politics.

Elena joins her wealthy boyfriend at the Enderby family’s once-a-generation gathering in an old monastic mansion. Old money turns out to mean old secrets, old power, and something much worse in the woods.

The Tyrant Philosophers moves to Eres Ffenegh, the city on the back of a crab, where siege, winter, demons, and power struggles all tighten at once. New and returning characters are pushed into the series’ widening endgame.

A graphic novel prequel to The Final Architecture, set when fugitive humanity is still being chased from world to world by the Architects. It widens the setting with visual action and raw survival pressure.

An omnibus collecting Walking to Aldebaran, One Day All This Will Be Yours, and And Put Away Childish Things. The common thread is journeying into places that are isolated, dangerous, and much stranger than they first seem.

The final Tyrant Philosophers volume returns to Ilmar a decade after the series began, with old ambitions hardened and old debts coming due. It promises a last reckoning for the long Palleseen project of perfection.