Sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming…
We are delighted to announce the acquisition of two new novels from Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award winner Adrian Tchaikovsky! The first, Service Model, is forthcoming from Tordotcom Publishing in June 2024, with the second book to follow in 2026.
To fix the world they must first break it further.
Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service.
When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: they can run away.
Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.
Sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming.
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Service Model
Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, England, and headed off to university to study psychology and zoology. For reasons unclear even to himself, he subsequently ended up in law. Adrian has since worked as a legal executive and now writes full-time. He lives in Yorkshire, with his wife and son. Adrian is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor. He has also trained in stage-fighting and keeps no exotic or dangerous pets of any kind—possibly excepting his son.
Tchaikovsky’s critically-acclaimed Elder Race was shortlisted for a Hugo Award, and for the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin prize! Other notable works include The Expert System’s Brother and the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Children of Time.
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Elder Race
Empire in Black and Gold was published in 2008. Dude has put out almost 50 novels and short story collections since then, many award-winning and all (well, at least the 20 or so that I have read) high quality. Madness. Dude deserves to be freaked out about the way people freak out about Brandon Sanderson.
Here for this. Here for everything this guy does. I’ll read them all if I can find the time.
I think you mean Hugo winner.
Seriously though, how is this guy so profile and so good? Normally you have to pick one.
The Shadows of the Apt series seems to have slipped under the radar, but I’d heartily recommend it.
Also, I think that’s the most grumpy looking author portrait I’ve ever seen ;)
His ability to turn out high quality stories at such tremendous volume is almost science fiction.