In 2008, after Tchaikovsky had spent fifteen years trying to get published, his novel Empire in Black and Gold was published by Tor Books (UK) – an imprint of Pan Macmillan – in the United Kingdom. In late 2018 he became a full time writer.
He was employed as a legal executive for the Commercial Dispute Department of Blacks, Solicitors, of Leeds.
He studied zoology and psychology at the University of Reading. Biography Īdrian Czajkowski was born in Lincolnshire in Woodhall Spa on 4 June 1972. Author James Lovegrove described it as "superior stuff, tackling big themes – gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness – with brio". Ĭhildren of Time was awarded the 30th Arthur C. He is known best for his series Shadows of the Apt, and for his novel Children of Time. Added to that the Rex sections are a bit repetitive as he struggles to work out if he is being a good or bad dog throughout.Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, England, United KingdomĪdrian Czajkowski (spelled as Adrian Tchaikovsky for his books) is a British fantasy and science fiction author. If I was to pick at things that might put some off it would be that although the narration is overall of a very good standard, especially in the Rex sections, when we switch to Laurence Bouvard Rex suddenly sounds very weak, not surprisingly so hardly her fault but I found it distracting. There is a lot of action and it is brought to a very satisfying conclusion in terms of the story of Rex and his master being completed. It's another clever book though rather shorter and definitely more easily accessible than Children of Time. Just what does happen when you augment animals with tech and ask them to fight your battles? Dogs of War explores the relationship between a loyal dog and its master when that relationship is abused by it being used with bad intent. In Dogs of War he once again explores the best and worst of human behaviour with everyone's favourite target, big business, once again coming under fire. I guess it shouldn't surprise me given that Tchaikovsky had me rooting for an race of alien spiders in his previous book that in this one he got me attached to a partly robot killer dog called Rex! This is one clever author, albeit one who is jaundiced against the human race, though being often of similar persuasion I can't fault him for that.
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