The Book of the Colossus is now complete with the final volume – Dark Feathered Hearts. “You shut us down in the darkness, you skin…
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Remorseless, vicious and brilliant – General Crysanthe Uella has dedicated her life to ensuring humanity will escape from the embers of a dead universe. But…
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5 out of 5 – Jane Dougherty, Amazon.com. “This is a wonderful book, a massive canvas of purple and blood red skies, oceans of liquid…
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Reviews of Thumb Adrian Tchaikovsky – Shadows of the Apt “Thumb is a superb book, one that makes the madness work.” Ian Watson “Splendidly strange, vividly…
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I’ve finished the first draft of the third volume in the Book of the Colossus quadrilogy, AntiHelix, and put it to one side for a…
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Movies and dreams have always been closely linked. Cinema history is full of movies of dreams, from the films of Georges Méliès and the 1911…
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Max and Abby are trapped in the city of Interosseous where the inhabitants navigate through the treacherous streets using the giant faces in the…
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The great news is that the manuscript for Ragged Claws is back from my editor, John Jarrold, and ready for the final knocking into shape…
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The first draft of my next novel and sequel to Thumb, Ragged Claws, is now finished and tucked safely in a drawer for a month.…
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3 CommentsThumb is now available in paperback from Amazon, priced $9.99 in the US, £7.99 in the UK and €11.17 in Europe. I confess to being…
2 CommentsThe universe is empty. The stars are dead. The worlds are no more. The last humans struggle to create a god to save them from…
5 CommentsA flat singularity carried the unfinished body of God through an empty universe. The colossus lay on his back, a being so vast he might…
2 CommentsI’ve been working on some art/visualisation pieces for Thumb. As I mentioned before I wanted to capture the feel of the German Expressionist artists and…
4 CommentsIn the Wastelands at the end of time stands a house that contains the secret to humanity’s survival.
4 CommentsJust a quick couple of pieces of news: 1) There won’t be a post for a couple of weeks as I’m off on my hols…
1 CommentUpdate: Consensus of opinion is that the font made it looked too like a comic book so I’m going to rethink the titling. In the…
2 CommentsI’ve just spent a few days in Latvia at a UNESCO conference on education. The delegates were mainly from Central Asia and Eastern Europe, so…
1 CommentOne of the most disturbing children’s stories ever published is “The New Mother” by Lucy Clifford. It appeared in the anthology of tales Anyhow Stories,…
Leave a CommentThumb is set at the very end of the Universe when all the stars have vanished and we have entered the phase called the heat…
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