Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow Twitter profile

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

@aptshadow

5 years

1. No lazy babies 2. Only rad surfer babies 3. As is set down in scripture.

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Very late to the party but Susanna Clarke's Piranesi is hands down one of the best books I've ever read. Very hard to talk about without impacting on the reading experience, as discovery is a major joy in the book.

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They literally knew how to get to the Moon. As a result of a crap ton of calculation and huge amounts of planning. They got to the Moon by very carefully working out how you get to the Moon. Jesus Christ do not make the Moon landing some kind of triumph of ignorance.

The Telegraph

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No one knew how to get to the Moon. But they did, and Britain now needs to recover that spirit to come out of the EU on October 31, writes @BorisJohnson

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Someone just emailed me to say I need to stop using fancy words and should cut out adverbs altogether. All I can say is that I perused that missive disbelievingly.

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4 years

Spider, man. Spider, man. Just a regular spider, man. Spins a web, very small, Where the ceiling meets the wall. Look up: it's just a spider, man.

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2 years

When you need some plumbing done but also really want to annoy a historian.

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3 years

So I discover that Marvel's character Silk was bitten by *the same spider* that bit Peter Parker and now I am delighted the spider apparently survived its encounter with PP and if Marvel want me to write a comic where that radioactive spider is the main character I am here for it

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4 years

I have a joke about capitalism but only 1% of people will enjoy it.

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6 months

Overwhelmed. Hooray for spiders!

Locus Magazine

@locusmag

7 months

The award for Best Series goes to Children of Time Series, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)

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7 years

@paleofuture also looks massively like he's laughing without understanding what the joke is.

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2 years

Just remember they don’t stop being rats after abandoning the sinking ship.

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2 years

"Doctor Who being female means the only heroes boys have are criminals" is the most egregious piece of dumbassery I ever heard.

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6 months

So I had absolutely not processed that the evening of the Hugo awards ceremony was of course around midday in the UK. So I’ve just received the news of the Children series win while GMing Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play.

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@aptshadow

3 years

Lovely typo today. Apparently my spaceships have artificial gravy technology.

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10 months

I mean woot! basically. Children of Time and its sequels has been nominated for best series for this year's Hugos! I'm massively honoured. And if you're a Worldcon member and like the series, then your vote would obviously be greatly appreciated.

Orbit Books

@orbitbooks

10 months

Children of Time is a finalist for Best Series at the 2023 Hugo Awards. Congratulations, @aptshadow !

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5 years

Got 2 identical spider jars last Christmas and use then for normal and fancy tea. Decided after various mixups that I needed to indicate this somehow.

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3 years

After thirty years of being a landlord you’re done. You’ve made your money. The house or commercial property should revert to a social trust for the common good or go to the tenants.

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2 years

Little roundup of what's on the way from me in Nov/Dec this year. Children of Memory expands the Children universe, both zoologically and philosophically, while City of Last Chances is my first fantasy book for a while, a tangled story of crossed lives and revolution.

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2 years

Arthropoding intensifies.

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5 years

Well, that was the day. I am now a full time writer with no day job and God preserve me.

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4 years

All-Terrain Armoured Tardigrade.

EGPJET3D

@egpjet3d

4 years

Cargo vehicle, #miningmoon project, #natureinspiration #tardigrade #Blender3d #b3d . Concept by egpjet3d

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2 years

"It is with deepest regret and sadness that I find the kleptocracy which was very pleasantly filling my pockets and those of my friends is now politically inconvenient to be associated with."

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3 years

So Torchwood, the Who spinoff, is notably an anagram of Doctor Who, so obviously this must be the rule for all subsequent spinoffs. I'm now going to pitch my show "Hoot Crowd" about a large group of time-travelling owls.

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2 years

I am absolutely overwhelmed - Elder Race has been shortlisted for the first Ursula K Le Guin award, amongst some truly spectacular company.

Electric Literature

@ElectricLit

2 years

We're pleased to announce the shortlist for The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction ( @ursulakleguin )! See the shortlisted titles, and read Erin Bartnett's ( @erinkbart ) conversation with Theo Downes-Le Guin about the prize and his mother's legacy.

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@aptshadow

1 year

Ever write a sentence where you’re not sure if it’s a beautiful and elegant innovation of language or possibly it’s just wank?

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@aptshadow

5 years

The problem with ‘never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity’ is that those two things are not mutually exclusive.

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@aptshadow

4 years

Quilt made by my mother, spiders and book covers. Best ever present :)

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6 months

Thanks again for all the Hugo congrats. Still reeling.

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@aptshadow

4 years

That classic SF story ‘I have no brain, 720 sexes and the ability to self-heal, and I must scream.’

Seeker by The Verge

@Seeker

4 years

This organism has no brain, 720 sexes, and the ability to self-heal 🤯

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@aptshadow

1 year

Handed in the MS of my new book to the agent. By which I mean I sent the MS, then sent the correct version, then told him not to read that because I was changing it, sent him the revised one then sent him another one where I'd got the chapter headings right.

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3 years

Me: ok son now you have to name your detective for class. Son: Olsifer Tripps Me: ... Me: ... Me: that is literally better than any name I have ever come up with.

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3 years

April fool's day. In olden days, of course, there was a day when the fool would be crowned temporary ruler. In modern times the need for such an occasion has, for unaccountable reasons, gone away.

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1 year

Just a slice of the specia editions of City of Last Chances I’m signing today. Look at the incredible sprayed edges!

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@aptshadow

10 months

Got a new fantasy book in the offing that hasn't been announced yet. Going over the proofs right now and still actually enjoying it, rather than being utterly jaded. May genuinely be (imho) the best thing I wrote. Some Found-family-in-a-war-zone stuff that still gets to me.

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@aptshadow

2 years

Well, this was probably inevitable. Children of Memory, sequel to those of Time and Ruin, will be out at the end of the year and here is the cover.

SciFiNow

@SciFiNow

2 years

🚨Cover reveal🚨 #ChildrenOfMemory is the thrilling final book in @aptshadow 's #ChildrenOfTime trilogy and we're delighted to reveal its stunning cover! We also have a sneak peek into the novel here... ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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@aptshadow

1 year

That’s handy because usually it’s so hard to get presents for little Ampersand.

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@aptshadow

4 years

And thank you everyone for their congratulations on Children of Ruin winning best novel. I was putting son to bed so I missed my own slot...

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@aptshadow

4 years

The next big thing from me: A new space opera series in the works.

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@aptshadow

1 year

Jesus, I somehow named a pair of characters ‘Calversy and Hobbers’ and have only just now noticed.

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@aptshadow

6 years

Excuse me, but you don’t know what happened to a beautiful pea-green boat we left unattended for just two minutes do you?

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@aptshadow

2 years

Overwhelmed! Absolutely delighted that Shards of Earth has done so well.

Tor Books UK

@UKTor

2 years

Congratulations to Shards of Earth by @aptshadow , winner of the 2021 BSFA Award for Best Novel!

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@aptshadow

6 months

What if Mad Max, but instead of Max it was C3P0? One robot’s epic quest to serve tea in a broken world begins here…

Tordotcom Publishing

@TorDotComPub

6 months

We are delighted to share the cover of SERVICE MODEL by @aptshadow , the first of two new novels! Sometimes all it takes is a nudge to overcome the limits of your programming. Design by @faceoutstudio Images © Shutterstock

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2 years

He doesn’t really do whatever a spider does.

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@aptshadow

1 year

TOMORROW is the release day for Children of Memory in the UK! (January in the US, already out in Canada).

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@aptshadow

4 years

It shouldn’t need to be said, honestly, and I hope it comes out in my work, but Christ, yes, I am anti-fascism. So are all my spiders and octopuses and even most of the humans.

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@aptshadow

6 years

For no reason.

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@aptshadow

3 years

Picturing a Marvel Comics Eurovision where every year Dr Doom gets up and sings a flat metallic Latverian national anthem, gets nil points and storms off swearing vengeance. Every year.

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@aptshadow

4 years

@dedbutdrmng They are just normal people wearing big rubber suits.

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@aptshadow

3 years

Today I am mostly an ageing thug in an 80s movie about to be outwitted by some kids on BMXs.

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@aptshadow

1 year

Children of Memory is out today in the UK!

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@aptshadow

1 year

Just finished watching Andor. And though I now commit the cardinal sin of Expressing a Star Wars Opinion on the Internet, that was one of the best TV series I ever saw, full stop, Incredibly emotive, beautifully written and acted, superb worldbuilding detail without

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@aptshadow

3 years

Ah, the editor's eye, that loves to pick out little things like the fact one character stands up three times in a scene without ever sitting down.

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@aptshadow

1 year

Have written a long scene about a dinner. I feel I’m a proper fantasy author now.

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@aptshadow

3 years

This is absolutely fascinating. Cuttlefish can pass the marshmallow test - i.e. understand that if they don't take the treat they get a better one, and exercise the necessary self control.

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@aptshadow

4 years

A political class poured greasily into lives of wealth and privilege from the womb currently insisting that students across the country be marked down in case they get something they haven't earned.

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@aptshadow

2 years

Every so often comes a book everyone seems to be spontaneously talking about. At Fantasycon this year it was @kuangrf ‘s Babel. Now about 70 pages in and I can see why. It’s a phenomenal read.

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@aptshadow

3 years

Computer RPG character: "Wow, the ruins of an ancient civilization undisturbed for a thousand years" Also: "I'm going to smash every pot, statue and other priceless relic just in case I can scavenge a handful of coins or some bonemeal."

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@aptshadow

5 years

I think my imagination needs to step back and think about what it's doing. A body of representatives from all the Earth-colonised worlds cannot be called "The Human League."

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@aptshadow

2 years

I’m Adrian and I will get nowhere if I insist on putting spiders in everything. True story.

Dr Zoë Ayres

@ZJAyres

2 years

Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school 👇 I'm Zoë, I won't go far

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@aptshadow

4 years

It feels very weird to type the name "Avrana Kern" again.

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@aptshadow

11 months

Can confirm that if you determinedly block enough ads you hit a seam that’s just ‘Hello I am random crazy individual and you should join my weird cult.’

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@aptshadow

9 months

@TrekMovie @sferakon

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@aptshadow

3 years

Pushing towards the end of the first draft of Children of Memory (working title). Going to need a very thorough editing pass, though, so a ways off completion.

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@aptshadow

8 months

@BitsHammer @ChrisKempshall Everyone thinks they’d be a named space marine and not one of those skulls you can buy to decorate bases…

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@aptshadow

1 year

Damn that’s why my legs keep falling off.

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@aptshadow

8 months

I’ve been waiting forever, it feels like, to share this. The sequel/standalone follow up to City of Last Chances is coming out this December. Meet old faces and new as the Palleseen army marches in House of Open Wounds.

Ad Astra

@AdAstraFiction

8 months

It's #COVERREVEAL time! We are so excited to reveal the wonderful cover for the new fantasy novel from the BSA Award Winning author of #CityOfLastChances , Adrian Tchaikovsky ( @aptshadow ) 🎉 #HouseOfOpenWounds is coming this December! Pre-order here:

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@aptshadow

2 years

One of these cats only tells lies, the other also only tells lies just different ones.

Elle Has Cats (and ADHD)

@ellle_em

2 years

They have a quest for you

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2 years

O God I bought a screwdriver set and now Amazon thinks I’m a crazed serial screwdriver set collector who must want to buy a thousand of them.

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@aptshadow

2 years

My first contact with LotR was the radio play, which I heard staticky bits of in my dad's car. I was utterly baffled but determined to learn more because of one character. Imagine my disappointment when, at 13, I read the book and found Aragorn was not in fact called 'Spider'.

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@aptshadow

10 months

I just want to draw people’s attention to how incredible this art is.

Kiabugboy

@aldrich_kia

10 months

Sailing spiders from the time of early understandings, crossing a strait in Planet green and coming into contact with curious stomatopods. from @aptshadow 's #ChildrenofTime series #illustration #scifi #fanart

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@aptshadow

1 year

(Little bugle fanfare). This is the third and last book of the Final Architecture series.

SciFiNow

@SciFiNow

1 year

🚨 Cover reveal Alert! 🚨 Lords Of Uncreation, the third book in @aptshadow 's Final Architecture trilogy will be heading our way next year and we’re absolutely delighted to reveal its cover right here at SciFiNow! Find out more here 👇

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@aptshadow

4 years

Concept: arthropod necromancer that animates it’s own shed exoskeletons.

Gil Wizen

@wizentrop

4 years

Just hanging out with my buddy... who is also my body (only one of those is alive)

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@aptshadow

2 years

The incredible card my wife made for me!

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@aptshadow

10 months

I’m working on a new social network where messages are delivered by ferociously aggressive hornets. I feel there’s a gap in the market for something low stress and technically achievable.

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@aptshadow

1 year

For no particular reason I've drawn a Napoleonic goblin.

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@aptshadow

3 years

The problem is that you see this as a problem.

MIT Technology Review

@techreview

3 years

The problem is that solar panels generate lots of electricity in the middle of sunny days, frequently more than what’s required, driving down prices—sometimes even into negative territory.

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2 years

Author copies today, general release tomorrow : Elder Race, new novella from

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@aptshadow

4 years

@space_jim1 @datadivajf "The Cream"

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@aptshadow

1 year

Just want to share @emilyinkpen 's photo of me apparently being violently enraged by receiving the BSFA award. I think it's because I'm working round a very wrecked voice but it is very "The fools, they called me mad!"

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@aptshadow

3 years

I am assuming ‘strong Britain great nation’ is sung to the tune of ‘soft kitty warm kitty’ from Big Bang Theory?

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@aptshadow

3 years

I cannot stress how goddamn difficult this sort of thing is for me. I am not a natural presenter.

Pan Macmillan

@panmacmillan

3 years

Say hello to the incredible bestselling author Adrian Tchaikovsky ( @aptshadow ) — he writes books about SPIDERS 🕷🕸

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@aptshadow

2 years

O God I have a horrible feeling that the problem with this novella is that it needs to be a novel.

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@aptshadow

4 years

Completely over the moon! And what a list!

The Clarke Award

@ClarkeAward

4 years

THE CLARKE SHORTLIST 2020: - The City in the Middle of the Night - Charlie Jane Anders - The Light Brigade - Kameron Hurley - A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine - The Old Drift - Namwali Serpell - Cage of Souls - Adrian Tchaikovsky - The Last Astronaut - David Wellington

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@aptshadow

3 years

The "let poor children starve" party, known for systematically bludgeoning everyone not born to a sizable inheritence, have decided it's criticism of white privilege that's keeping poor white children down.

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@aptshadow

3 years

Always feel like a serious and literary writer when I can end a paragraph with ‘and then the screaming began.’

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3 years

"Look, Steve, I'm sorry to bring this up but your cat is in my garden. Again. Yes, it is a problem. No, I don't think I'm overreacting."

Sally Gottschalk

@georginasally

3 years

More trouble with the big cat in Babbacombe.

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@aptshadow

3 years

The success of UK vaccination isn't due to greed. It's a no-profit jab rolled out by a socialised medicine system. It's the one thing UK gov has done that's worked efficiently and well, without vanishing into a hole of corruption, self-interest and nepotism - aka 'greed'.

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5 years

Gent on train across from me has a ticket labelled ‘Johnny Details’ and have been considering this fascinating name for 45 mins until realising it just says ‘Journey Details’ & now I want to write a book about a detective called Johnny Details.

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3 years

I am absolutely overwhelmed to be selected as the international recipient of the Golden Dragon Award of Montenegro, to be given out at Refesticon '21. It's a huge honour.

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@aptshadow

4 years

@jil_slander Awesomeness

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@aptshadow

3 years

This is an extraordinary honour. Doors of Eden has been shortlisted for the Philip K Dick Award, alongside a battery of superb work.

Norwescon

@norwescon

3 years

Norwescon, the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society, and the Philip K. Dick Trust are pleased to announce the six nominated works for the 2021 Philip K. Dick Award! The award ceremony will be broadcast April 2, 2021, from #nwc43 . #pkdaward

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6 years

@PeteOtway She also takes all the labels off her cans and uses a keyboard where all the keys trigger random characters.

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@aptshadow

2 years

I am absolutely gobsmacked by this nomination. Thank you to everyone who voted!

Tor Books (Check Mark)

@torbooks

2 years

For 2022 Hugo Award Finalists for Best Novella, congrats to our friends at @TorDotComPub for the nominations of #AcrosstheGreenGrassFields by @seananmcguire , #ElderRace by @aptshadow , #FireheartTiger by @aliettedb , #ThePastIsRead by @catvalente , (1/2)

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11 months

FB and Twitter seem to have about the same frequency of ads (around 1 in 5 posts). The difference being that FB, for all its sins, reckons I like board games and RPGs, whereas Twitter apparently thinks I like cryptcurrency and gambling.

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@aptshadow

8 months

My upcoming standalone SF has a cover!

Jan_is_reading

@jan_is_reading

8 months

I’m delighted to be joining in with the #CoverReveal for #AlienClay by @aptshadow #AdrianTchaikovsky which is to be published by @UKTor on 28 March, 2024. Pre-order here: @BlackCrow_PR

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4 years

Me, coming to a thorny plot point: "Now how was I going to solve X? What does my plot outline say?" Past me in the plot outline: "Says 'They find a way to solve X' ." Me: ... Me: Thanks.

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6 years

How to tell if you're in a Tchaikovsky novel - holy crap that's a big bug - surrounded by big bu- - Jesus that spider is enormous - why do I have so many legs? - wait, *I'm* a spider? - Ok, I'm a spider. - I can deal with that. - WTF why am I in space all of a sudden?

Felicia "Ray" Davin

@FeliciaDavin

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proposed twitter game: write about your own work as if you're writing one of The Toast's "How to Tell if You're in a ... Novel" series () (also: The Toast, dreamy sigh)

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My admiration for his paintings just went way up. Had no idea he was an owl.