This week Robyn, Chris and I met with author Adrian Tchaivkovsky to discuss world building, finding yourself in a profession you never expected, upcoming projects, AI, role playing games, old manuscripts, Adrian"s first job and much more! If you would like to join us for a Friday Conversation episode visit our forums G

Adrian Tchaikovsky is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer and probably one of our favorite authors right now. He is best known for his series Shadows of the Apt and Children of Time. In this episode, Kevin talks with Adrian about his upbringing and how he got interested in science fiction, his unique st

Tom Pepperdine interviews author Adrian Tchaikovsky on his day-to-day writing process. Adrian discusses how his writing process changed during the pandemic versus the before times, why he associates coffee with work, and how Robin Hobb called him out on his world-building. You can find all of Adrian's books on the foll

You can find full details of Adrian’s fiction here: https://www.panmacmillan.com/blogs/science-fiction-and-fantasy/adrian-tchaikovsky-books-in-order. Follow Adrian on Twitter @aptshadow. Timestamps 0:57 Introduction 1:58 Children of Time optioned 3:24 Passage from Doors of Eden 7:53 Alternative evolutionary scenarios 9

In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s The Doors of Eden (Orbit, 2020) the multiverse is filled with parallel Earths where evolution takes different twists and turns. The forks in the road and the paths species take vary from Earth to Earth, seeding sentience in a wide variety of organisms. In one, giant mollusks “understand and comm