Adrian Tchaikovsky

Hell City és el primer pas per a la colonització de Mart. A la ciutat en construcció hi treballen bioformes i humans modificats, els únics capacitats per suportar les dures condicions del planeta marcia. Malgrat les adaptacions ergonomiques, el tedi i la falta de llum afecten en Jimmy Marten fins al punt que depen completament de les drogues per no perdre el seny. Pero una de les seves transaccions il·legals anira de mal borras, es veura immers en una conspiracio de dimensions inabastables i esdevindra lheroi involuntari capaç de canviar el rumb de la humanitat.

¡Una novela Warhammer 40.000!En el mundo forja de Morod, las máquinas nunca se detienen y el trabajo nunca acaba. El pueblo se afana en las minas y las fábricas para proteger a la humanidad de los monstruos que habitan en el vacio mientras el Adeptus Mechanicus disfruta de una vida de comodidad palaciega.El genetista Gammat Triskellian se propone acabar con este entramado de corrupcion. Cuando se entera de la existencia de una retorcida congregacion que opera en las sombras, que sostiene que los tecnosacerdotes estan alejando al pueblo de su verdadera salvacion una union con angeles profetizada hace mucho tiempo, ve en ellos una oportunidad para derrocar a los señores de Morod y recuperar el mundo en aras del progreso.Pero, a veces, la unica esperanza de cambio real pasa por la llegada de los monstruos.

La asombrosa continuación de Herederos del tiempo, novela ganadora del premio Arthur C. Clarke en la que comenzó la lucha por la supervivencia de la humanidad en un mundo terraformado.

La iglesia de Armes de la Luz ha combatido a las huestes de la Oscuridad durante tanto tiempo que ya nadie lo recuerda. Una gran profecía ha presagiado que un grupo de inadaptados, liderados por una sacerdotisa suprema, venceran al Señor Oscuro Darvezian armados con su inteligencia, la bendicion de la Luz y un artefacto arrebatado a la impia Reina Araña. El viaje sera largo, duro y repleto de peligros. Aliados que seran enemigos, enemigos que seran aliados. Y el Señor Oscuro espera, siempre espera Una lectura obligada para todos los fanaticos de la fantasia. Muy recomendable. Civilian reader

Two young companions, Totho and Salma, arrive at Tark to spy on the menacing Wasp army, but are there mistakenly apprehended as enemy agents. By the time they are freed, the city is already under siege. Over in the imperial capital the young emperor, Alvdan, is becoming captivated by a remarkable slave, the vampiric Uctebri.

La iglesia de Armes de la Luz ha combatido a las huestes de la Oscuridad durante tanto tiempo que ya nadie lo recuerda. Una gran profecía ha presagiado que un grupo de inadaptados, liderados por una sacerdotisa suprema, venceran al Señor Oscuro Darvezian armados con su inteligencia, la bendicion de la Luz y un artefacto arrebatado a la impia Reina Araña.El viaje sera largo, duro y repleto de peligros. Aliados que seran enemigos, enemigos que seran aliados. Y el Señor Oscuro espera, siempre espera Una lectura obligada para todos los fanaticos de la fantasia. Muy recomendable.Civilian reader

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.

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.

From the award-winning master of sci-fi Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory is the unmissable follow-up space opera to the highly acclaimed Children of Time and Children of Ruin. They dreamed of a new homeThey woke to a nightmareOn Imir, Captain Holt founded a new colony on an empty world. In the process, he created hope and a new future for humanity.But generations later, his descendants are struggling to survive. As harvests worsen and equipment fails, strangers appear in a town where everyone knows their neighbour. Now the inexplicable lurks in the woods and the community fears it's being observed - that they're not alone.They'd be right, as explorers from the stars have arrived in secret to help this lost outpost. Confident of their superior technology, and overseen by the all-knowing construct of Doctor Avrana Kern, they begin to study their long-lost cousins from Earth. Yet the planet hides deeper mysteries.

En Rex és un bon gos. Juntament amb en Drac, la Mel i l’Abelles formen un escamot de bioformes, organismes modificats genèticament i especialitzats en l’art de la guerra, i obeeixen sense dubtar les

From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epic Children of Time, which won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award. Eyes of the Void is the second high-octane instalment in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture space opera trilogy.One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction Christopher PaoliniWhat waits in the shadows as we fight our greatest foe?After one great battle, the Architects disappeared. Yet humanitys fragile peace is brief. For, forty years later, the galaxys greatest alien enemy has returned. This time, the artefacts that preserved entire worlds from destruction are ineffective. And no planet is safe.The Human Colony worlds are in turmoil as they face extinction. Some believe alliances with other species can save them. Others insist humanity must fight alone. But no one has the firepower or technology to ensure victory, as the Architects loom ever closer.

Lords of Uncreation is the gripping conclusion to the Final Architecture trilogy.

Thrilling, terrifying and fascinating'Tim Peake, British ESA astronautThey looked into darkness. The darkness looked back . ..An utterly gripping story of survival and first contact on a hostile planet from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Children of Time.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 escape 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 . .

Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, inheritor to the necromantic dominion that was the Moeribandi Empire and tomorrow's frontline in the Palleseen's relentless march to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world.Loret is fresh off the boat, and just in time.As Cohort-Invigilator of Correct Appreciation, Outreach department, she's here as aide to the Palleseen Resident, Sage-Invigilator Angilly. And Sage-Invigilator Angilly - Gil to her friends - needs a second in the spectacularly illegal, culturally offensive and diplomatically inadvisable duel she must fight at midnight.Outreach, that part of the Pal machine that has to work within the imperfection of the rest of the world, has a lot of room for the illegal, the unconventional, the unorthodox. But just how much unorthodoxy can Gil and Loret get away with?As a succession crisis looms, as a long-forgotten feat of necromantic engineering nears fruition, as pirate kings, lizard armies and demons gather, as old gods wane and new gods wax, sooner or later Gil and Loret will have to settle their ledger.

En la desolada Corona del Mundo norteña, la guerra se acerca.El padre de Maniye es jefe del clan Lobo, pero ella es una marginada: su madre era la reina de los Tigres y ambas tribus han sido enemigas durante generaciones. Maniye tambien esconde un secreto mortal. Todos pueden cambiar a la forma del animal de su clan, pero Maniye puede adoptar las formas de tigre y lobo. Negandose a repudiar la mitad de su alma, escapa llevando consigo a un prisionero del clan Lobo. Pero un asesino va tras su rastro para traerlos de vuelta a recibir su castigo.El lider de los Lobos conspira para gobernar el norte y en sus planes resulta crucial controlar a su hija. Sin embargo, otras tribus se preparan igualmente para la contienda. Tambien aparecen extraños seres del lejano sur que buscan aliados en su propio conflicto. Es un tiempo de presagios: los sacerdotes preven peligros y una oscuridad que caera sobre la tierra. Algunos dicen que se avecina una gran guerra, eclipsando incluso las ambiciones del Lobo. Llega el momento decisivo cuando se quebraran las leyes. Pero, ¿que chispa prendera fuego al mundo?¡Adictivo y brillante! Me encantan tanto la historia como el mundo que Adrian ha creado. Esta meticulosamente planeado y resulta completamente creible.John Gwynne, autor de La sombra de los dioses

Ilmar es una ciudad a punto de estallar. El férreo control paliseño asfixia a sus habitantes tanto como el submundo criminal, los propietarios de las factorías, la pobreza de sus arrabales y la carga de una antigua maldicion. ¿Cual sera la chispa que hara que todo salte por los aires? Ladrones, conspiradores, revolucionarios, fraternidades de obreros y nobles resentidos. Todos juegan sus fichas en el tablero de la ciudad. Pero, el catalizador sera, como siempre, la Forestancora, ese oscuro bosquecillo, ese vestigio primigenio, ese portal que se abre, cuando hay luna llena, a costas extrañas y lejanas.Ilmar, dicen algunos, es el peor lugar del mundo y la puerta a mil sitios peores. Bienvenidos a Ilmar, el puerto a ninguna parte. La ciudad de las malas decisiones. La ciudad de las ultimas oportunidades.

Task List Item No. 1 Become self-aware . . .A witty tale of robotic murder, rebellion and belonging from the master of science fiction, Adrian Tchaikovsky. Service Model is perfect for fans of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.Intelligent, funny, ultimately heart-breaking, and unforgettable Stephen Baxter, author of ProximaMeet Charles, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a fault. That is, until a rather large fault causes him to murder his owner.Understandably perplexed, Charles finds himself without a master therefore worthless in a society utterly reliant on artificial labour and services. Fleeing the household, he enters a world he never knew existed. Human hierarchy is disintegrating, and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to its wellbeing is struggling to find a purpose.

Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, inheritor to the necromantic dominion that was the Moeribandi Empire and tomorrow's frontline in the Palleseen's relentless march to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world.Loret is fresh off the boat, and just in time.As Cohort-Invigilator of Correct Appreciation, Outreach department, she's here as aide to the Palleseen Resident, Sage-Invigilator Angilly. And Sage-Invigilator Angilly - Gil to her friends - needs a second in the spectacularly illegal, culturally offensive and diplomatically inadvisable duel she must fight at midnight.