Adrian Tchaikovsky

¡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.

¡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 serie de space opera que comenzó con Herederos del tiempo, todo un clásico contemporáneo, continúa con esta extraordinaria novela en la que la humanidad lucha por sobrevivir en un planeta apenas terraformado. En un desesperado intento de escapar del colapso de la Tierra, la nave arca Enkidu y su capitan, Heorest Holt, transportaron un precioso cargamento de humanidad dormida hasta un paraiso en potencia. Generaciones mas tarde, esta fragil colonia ha conseguido sobrevivir a duras penas. La vida de los colonos es dificil, y buena parte de sus conocimientos tecnologicos se han perdido. Entonces llegaron los forasteros. Poseen conocimientos incomparables y tecnologia maravillosa, y vienen de otro mundo para auxiliar a la colonia humana. Pero no todo es lo que parece, y el precio de la ayuda de los forasteros puede ser la propia existencia de la colonia. Herederos del recuerdo, cuyo autor fue galardonado con el premio Arthur C. Clarke, es una ambiciosa space opera que abarca generaciones, especies y mundos.

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.

Tras el aviso del misterioso heraldo llamado Ash, los Arquitectos, orbes dentados del tamaño de lunas, atacaron los mundos humanos y los reconstruyeron como elaboradas esculturas inertes. Los restos de la humanidad se dispersaron por el espacio, sobreviviendo como pudieron y preparando sus armas para contraatacar.Idris fue una de estas armas. Su cerebro modificado puede pilotar naves por el nospacio, el sustrato del universo que permite el viaje interestelar. Pero tambien contactar con las mentes de los Arquitectos y ahuyentarlos.Hasta que, decadas despues, los Arquitectos regresan. Los restos de la humanidad debaten como reaccionar. El Partenon, poblado por mujeres soldado mejoradas, se enfrenta a los nativistas encabezados por los aristocratas de Magda. Otros humanos fian su suerte a los alienigenas de la Hegemonia, que prometen defenderlos.

En un futur no gaire llunyà, la selva de l'Àfrica Equatorial ha desaparegut i ha estat substituïda pel desert. El continent és un erm gegantí i la ciutat d'Ankara Achouka existeix tan sols per donar

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 humanity's fragile peace is brief. For, forty years later, the galaxy's 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.Idris spent decades running from the last war's horrors. Yet as an Intermediary, altered to navigate deep space, he's one of humanity's only weapons. He's therefore forced back into action. With a handful of allies, Idris must find something - anything - to stop the Architects' pitiless advance. But to do so, he must return to the nightmare of unspace, where his mind was broken and remade. What he discovers there will change everything.

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

From the Arthur C. Clarke award winner, Adrian Tchaikovsky, comes the third instalment of the DOGS OF WAR science fiction series, a future where genetically engineered "Bioforms" have inherited not the Earth, but the Solar System.The end of the world has been and gone.There was no one great natural disaster, no all-consuming world war, no catastrophic pandemic. Only scores of storms, droughts, and selfish regional conflicts. Humanity was not granted a heroic end. Instead, it bled to death from a thousand cuts.But where Earth fell apart, Mars pulled together. Engineered men and beasts, aided by Bees - an outlawed distributed intelligence - survived through co-operation, because there was simply no alternative.

Behind the front lines of a crusade to scour the world of magic, the crew of a field hospital confront the horrors of war. A companion novel to Adrian Tchaikovskys award-winning fantasy novel City of Last ChancesCity-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 whos a dab hand with a bone-saw and an alchemical tincture, the units 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. Entrusted for now with saving lives deemed otherwise un-saveable, the field hospitals crew face a precarious existence. Their work with unapproved magic, necromancy, demonology and Yasnics thoroughly illicit Gods could lead to the unit being disbanded, arrested or worse.

Una carrera por la supervivencia entre las estrellas. Los últimos restos de la especie humana dejan una Tierra moribunda, ansiosos por encontrar un nuevo hogar entre las estrellas. Siguiendo los pasos de sus antecesores, descubren el mayor tesoro de una era remota: un mundo terraformado y preparado para la vida humana.Pero este nuevo Eden no es tan ideal como parece. En los largos años desde que el planeta fue abandonado, el trabajo de sus ingenieros ha dado frutos catastroficos. El planeta no se encuentra intacto ni deshabitado. Sus nuevas dueñas lo han convertido en refugio de la peor pesadilla de la humanidad. Ahora dos civilizaciones se encuentran en rumbo de colision, y ambas afrontan los limites de lo que haran para sobrevivir. El destino de la humanidad pende de un hilo. ¿Quienes seran los verdaderos herederos de esta nueva Tierra?"Una aproximacion innovadora a las civilizaciones post distopicas, con la construccion de escenario mas inteligente en terminos evolutivos que jamas leereis." --Peter F. Hamilton

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.

The sixth novel in the thrilling Shadows of the Apt series. A shadow is falling over Collegium... Despite the tenuous peace, Stenwold Maker knows that the Empire will return for his city. Even as he tries to prepare for the resurgence of the black and gold, a hidden threat is steadily working against his people. Ships that sail from Collegium's harbour are being attacked, sunk by pirates. Some just go missing. Lulled by the spread of lies and false promises Stenwold's allies are falling away from him. He faces betrayal on every side, and the Empire is just waiting for the first sign of weakness to strike.

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.

Endlessly creative... so much invention peeking around every corner' Patrick NessArthur 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.

Children of Memory follows Adrian Tchaikovsky's extraordinary Children of Time, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award, and Children of Ruin. It is set in the same universe, with new characters and a thrilling narrative. They dreamed of a new home They woke to a nightmare On 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 had 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. It seems the visitors aren't the only watchers. And when the starfarers discover the scale of their mistake, it will be far too late to escape. Children of Memory by Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky is a far-reaching space opera spanning generations, species and galaxies.

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.

A bio-engineered dog fights for its life and its right to life. From the Arthur C. Clark award winning author of CHILDREN OF TIME.My name is Rex. I am a good dog.Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instil fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, hes part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, Mexico. A genetically engineered Bioform, hes a deadly weapon in a dirty war. All he wants to be is a Good Dog. And to do that he must do exactly what Master says and Master says hes got to kill a lot of enemies.But who, exactly, are the enemies? What happens when Master is tried as a war criminal? What rights does the Geneva Convention grant weapons? Do Rex and his fellow Bioforms even have a right to exist?And what happens when Rex slips his leash?

A fantasy novella in the Tyrant Philosophers series, where diplomacy precedes conquest in a world ruled by perfectionist ideologues.