Prograft

Four different eligible series in four years in a row. What a feat!
Those three in previous years have all made it to the short list at least.
Good luck with Dogs of War, it's well worth it (as always)!

Good to know so many are on their way to China!
Thus far four of them have hit bookstores and another four magazine kiosks.
Personally I hadn't seen news of five of them before this update: Dogs of War, Elder Race, Made Things, Feast and Famine and Saturation Point. Good luck!

That image is definitely from a different book with a similar title, as pointed out in the links above.

imagine one day:
Me: Hi, Siri.
My iPhone: OK, I will now play Warbreaker for you.

all physical books that I read this year, stacked roughly in a Christmas tree's shape.

My very bookish Christmas tree v2 (again, all physical books that I read this year). Merry X'mas!

Adrian Tchaikovsky(@aptshadow.bsky.social)'s House of Open Wounds starts its serialisation on Science Fiction World (Translations) this month, two years after the Chinese translation of City of Last Chances. I guess they need to speed up; they are translating the series slower than AT writing it...

Cast Your Vote for the Best SFF of the Year! - Reactor Books! Movies! TV shows! Video games! Short fiction! And more!!

Hearing reports that some of you have not been informed that we are casting the net far and wide to determine the science fiction and fantasy favorites of the year. Here's me amending that:

Join us. In honor of hitting triple digits in responses I was awarded one (1) DVD of The Hobbit (1977). It was so cool and metallic. I await my next reward, contingent on the number of responses

Wasn't you already doing this all the time in your books? For example, in the attached formula from What If? (Downsprout turbine), "ft" and "meter" come side by side🧑‍🤝‍🧑

two boxes on my shelf dedicated to Adrian Tchaikovsky's novels.

My modest "Tchai Trove".
Considering the distance across half the globe, I'm contented with the adequacy😉 (of the quantity). Read all of them, and some more e-books. Enjoyed all of them.
Looking forward to the continuations in two major series as well as more standalones from AT in the coming year!

will definitely try it out... someday...

One of them will be mine 😄 and another will be bound for Baoshu, whom you've met in Bulgaria last month.

... as well as Adrian Tchaikovsky 😀

Star Body won the Best Introduced Book award

City of Last Chances won the Best Translation award

Congrats to both of you! You both won!
星体 / Star Body won the Best Introduced Book award (最佳引进图书奖).
最后机会所在的城市 / City of Last Chances won the Best Translation award (最佳翻译奖). Li Keqin (李克勤) did a good job translating this amazing fantasy into Chinese.

Katabasis UK edition (R) and its Chinese translation (L). Approaching the end of the former, will probably re-read with the latter.

me using Laser 310

First used: Apple II;
First owned: LASER 310, as shown in the photo (re-shot), complete with a B&W TV set, a floppy disk drive on its left and a printer on the right. (looked it up just now and found that it was called VZ-300 in USA)

*only* 4 more? I thought these Worlds would go on indefinitely...

Just finished Bee Speaker and I love Irae!!!

I found these new covers on B&N the week before. They seem to belong to a new paperback set due in 2026 (along with Bee Speaker paperback?). www.reddit.com/r/AdrianTcha...

May and July issues of Science Fiction World (Translations), including both parts of Service Model Chinese translation, with the UK edition on the right.

Title and art of Human Resources Chinese translation

Part 2 is out too! It comes with a surprise bonus of Human Resources, a short story set in the Service Model universe.

Where does Kris hide her knife?

Amazing!
certainly beats my The Expanse rip-off 3yr ago (www.reddit.com/r/AdrianTcha...)

Both 覆盆子 and 山莓 are correct. They are the same thing in Chinese I think. Some also call it 树莓 so I thought they grow on trees (but this doesn't look like a tree?).

Page 1000 of Wind and Truth

Reaching 4-digit page numbers for the fourth time this year. (first if not counting re-reads)

Uncomfortably echoing SK's Rat which I've just read...

In Miniature, you wrote, in the note to Your Smart Appliances Talks About You Behind Your Back, that you "have performed it at various places". Can we hear it? I don't mean this piece in the picture; i mean the OTHER in the trailer!

not always to me. Sometimes the Undesignated Valet Unit.

Good for you! Still waiting for my copy, though I've read the English edition last year.

City of Last Chances, cover of part 1 (of 3)

City of Last Chances, cover of part 2 (of 3). The third part hasn't got its cover from this novel but from another.

Cage of Souls, cover of part 1 (of 2)

Cage of Souls, cover of part 2 (of 2)

City of Last Chances and Cage of Souls have been translated and serialised on SFW(T) previously. Here are their covers: