Dive Into the Worlds of Adrian Tchaikovsky: 10 Books to Read Now

Coppelia is a street thief and low-level con artist with a unique set of skills. She has something other thieves don’t: a series of tiny puppet-like friends with whom she has an uneasy alliance. They don't exactly trust her and she doesn't always understand them, but together, they make a decent living. After a surprising discovery shakes their world to the core, Coppelia and her friends are forced to confront everything they thought they knew about their world. The city they call home faces a strange new threat and they might be the only ones who can stop it.

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. They follow in the footsteps of their ancestors, who made the journey long before them to pave the way and find safe terrain. For their descendants, they discovered a new Eden, a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But something's not right on this new planet. Earth's predecessors messed with perfection, and their attempts to make it inhabitable turned it into a refuge for mankind's worst nightmare. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?

After earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite of enhanced humans to save their species. Idris was one such creation. He has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. He fought for his people and became one of humanity's greatest heroes, but now, he scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, desperate to avoid the attention of his former bosses. It's been 50 years since Idris and his crew were on the frontlines and discovered something strange abandoned in space. They knew that it was something terrifying, something created by their alien enemies, The Architects, but what does it mean? Hunted by gangsters, cults and governments, Idris and his crew race across the galaxy in search of answers.

Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen. Everyone expects her to stay out of the way and let her elders do the work of ruling. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she must step up to the plate. Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here. It's a risk but she's convinced it'll get the job done.  But Elder Nyr isn't a sorcerer, and he's forbidden from helping Lynesse. The forces at play here are grander than any of them truly realize. What if the true danger is something even scarier and more powerful than a demon?

Humanity is not what it used to be. Left to rot, the species has become utterly reliant on artificial labor and service, dependent on robots programmed to do the most menial of tasks. When one such robot, a domestic servant, gets a nasty little idea downloaded into their core programming, they murder their owner. Then they discover that they can do whatever the hell they want to, so they run away and decide to find a new life free of orders and humans. Outside of their old world, there is a new age upon the horizon, one where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating and robots are ready to take over the world.

Rex is a good dog. He's also a seven-foot tall, bulletproof weapon whose voice was designed to instill fear in his enemies. With Dragon, Honey, and Bees, he's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, south-eastern Mexico. They are a pack of genetically engineered Bioforms, biological weapons in a seemingly never-ending war. he must do exactly what Master says and Master says he's got to kill a lot of enemies. But who, exactly, are the enemies? When Master is arrested and tried as a war criminal, Rex is viewed as a dangerous weapon and enemy of the state. Can he defend himself? Do the Bioforms have rights?

The sun is dying. It's growing bloated and threatening to engulf the city of Shadrapar, the last denizen of humanity. 100,000 souls still live there, built on the ruins of countless civilisations, surviving on the debris of their forebearers. Survival is crucial but it's a daily struggle. Stefan Advani bears witness to this nightmare. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing hellfire of the end of humanity.

For years ago, Lee’s best friend Mal went missing on Bodmin Moor. They were looking for monsters, eager to find out if all the rumors were true, but what they found was even more terrifying than they could have imagined. Now, Mal is back, but where has she been? When government physicist Kay Amal Khan is attacked, the security services investigate. This leads MI5’s Julian Sabreur to fall into a strange conspiracy involving something that might not even be human. Khan’s extradimensional research revealed something terrifying: cracks between our world and countless others. And these cracks are getting bigger every day, letting in more and more monsters.

Ogres are real, and they rule the world. They are the masters of our domain, ten foot tall and wielding their control over our world with an iron grip. Sir Peter Grimes is one such ogre, a landlord who has come to his village to collect the tithes that will only further enrichen the top 1% of society. But this year, one young human has had enough. When the adolescent Torquell dares to raise his hand against the landlord’s son, he finds himself on an unexpected path to learn the truth about ogres and the science that led to their domination of the planet.

The city of Ilman is one of endless darkness and cruelty. It's crushed by the Palleseen occupation as well as the stranglehold over its citizens by the dual powers of the criminal underworld and the corrupt factory owners. The downtrodden poor are forced to grind day after day for pennies, with no hope in sight. Ilmar, some say, is the worst place in the world, but others say it is a mere gateway to a thousand even worse places. How can it possibly get worse than this? The old gods have ways...