Adrian Tchaikovsky
Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
- I've noticed a microgenre shift in SF over the last year - or possibly just in the books I've come across. Specifically, a bit of a boom in big concept space opera books working in the Banks/Hamilton ideaspace. Meaning SF that simultaneously delivers a strong action storyline against a backdrop
- of civilizations with ready access to very high technology, planetary/stellar engineering, post-scarcity ennui, posthumanism, that kind of thing. Firstly there's Claire North's Slow Gods - a story of clashing societal ideologies, catastrophe, terrible weapons and a main character who's been