One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Firstly, there’s the business of building immersive and robust worlds. What is the key to finding inspiration in gaming but transforming that inspiration into a story that works?įor me, there are a couple of really useful skills that tabletop role-playing teaches, especially if you run a lot of games. It’s well-documented that you are a role-playing game enthusiast. Growing up, he admired David Attenborough and Gerald Durrell, and the Natural History Museum was one of his favorite places. Diana Wynne Jones is one of his greatest early influences.

He has cited numerous influences, including Gene Wolfe, China Miéville, Mary Gentle, Steven Erikson, and more, not to mention (at least, recently) Doctor Who. In 2019, he was awarded an honorary doctorate of the arts by the University of Lincoln.īesides the above, Tchaikovsky has experience with acting as well as stage fighting, and has trained at Leeds Armouries in historical combat. Among many awards nominations and accolades, he won a 2017 BFA for Best Fantasy Novel for The Tiger and the Wolf, as well as a 2019 BSFA for Best Novel for Children of Time sequel, Children of Ruin. To date, Tchaikovsky has more than twenty-five books out (upwards of thirty-five if we’re including novellas) and a lot more on the way. By the end of 2018, his books were earning enough that he could write full time. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. 2015 saw the publication of Guns of the Dawn as well as Children of Time.īeforehand, Tchaikovsky had been noticed by the Gemmell Awards’ voters, and he’d received a BFA nomination for short story “Family Business,” but Children of Time landed him an Arthur C.

The series is comprised of ten novels, ending with 2014’s Seal of the Worm, plus numerous short stories. In 2008, Tor UK began publishing his Shadows of the Apt series, beginning with Empire in Black and Gold. Naturally, he was inspired to follow suit. He had been an avid role-playing gamer and saw the titles as someone’s Dungeons & Dragons campaigns rendered into fiction. In the mid-nineties, he paid the bills working with the Legal Aid Board, and via on-the-job training became a legal executive, eventually specializing in debt collection, litigation, and landlord/tenant law.Īt eighteen, Tchaikovsky discovered the Dragonlance books of Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. He studied zoology and psychology at the University of Reading. Adrian Tchaikovsky, né Adrian Czajkowski, was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire.

One Day All This Will Be Yours by Adrian Tchaikovsky