Kelborn Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 (edited) Greetings, Adrian himself just confirmed that he'll be doing a Warhammer story for GW. No details as of now and here's the link: https://twitter.com/aptshadow/status/1265668691099889666 Guess that it will be part of the Dawn of Fire series. Cheers, Kel Edited September 27, 2020 by Kelborn Roomsky and DarkChaplain 2 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheywood Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Awesome news. I hear great things about his writing. Based on that tweet, and the fact that Tchaikovsky is new to writing for the IP, I doubt it’s anything Dawn of Fire related. My guess is it’s a short story about a Xenos faction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knockagh Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Never read anything by him but I’ve heard the name and seen a few of his books. Looks interesting, good to see BL starting to interest some established sci fi authors. I doubt it will be in the dawn of fire series, surely you need folks really steeped in the lore for that. I could see a horror or crime book perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theSpirea Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Can't really say I'm overly excited. Children of Time was an interesting novel with cool ideas and themes, but the sequel was a disaster I struggled to finish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aa.logan Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 I’m a obviously a contrary soul, liked the first, loved the second of that series, and have generally liked everything else of his that I’ve read. This has been on the cards for a while, pretty sure he’s confirmed it before- ages ago he reposted a GSC vs Ad Mech picture and said something about them fighting against Imperial repression. Discussion followed, he was asked if as a fan he would write for BL, Nick Kyme(?) suggested he get in touch. Been posting pictures of his Forest Goblin spiders and other models since and mentioned his BL project too. His stock-in-trade is humanoid versions of animals/non-human intelligences, so you’d assume Xenos writing would be a natural fit. Beren, Xisor and cheywood 3 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malkydel Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Greetings, Adrian himself just confirmed that he'll be doing a Warhammer story for GW. No details as of now and here's the link: https://twitter.com/aptshadow/status/1265668691099889666 Guess that it will be part of the Dawn of Fire series. Cheers, Kel Had a minor like share spree on this on Twitter as a result of this thread and then realised it was from months ago and sheepishly deleted But this is a grand thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taliesin Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Are we sure its a novel? On the one hand, Tcaikovsky is one the more famous in SFF at the moment and him writing for BL could be seen as a strong move by BL, but on the other, Bl always has authors tip their toe in with multiple short stories. But this guy normally writes long novels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splog Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Children of Ruin 4.1 out of 5 based on 13,284 ratings on Good Reads Winner of best novel at the 2020 British SF association awards More ‘disasters’ like this please. Xisor 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedor Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Dogs of War is my favourite of his sci-fi. I've mostly read his fantasy Shadows of the Apt series, good stuff after a slow start. aa.logan, Pacific81 and Taliesin 3 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theSpirea Posted September 27, 2020 Share Posted September 27, 2020 Children of Ruin 4.1 out of 5 based on 13,284 ratings on Good Reads Winner of best novel at the 2020 British SF association awards More ‘disasters’ like this please. Because Goodreads rating is to go by... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byrd9999 Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 ADB is a very big fan, so that's another tick in the plus column for me. I'm excited to see what he'll come up with :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandlemad Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 I'm not wild about his stuff but Tchaikovsky's quite the catch for BL. He's probably the biggest name in SF/F - or at least British SF/F - to write for them in a long while. His Shadows of the Apt series seem to be everywhere and though Children of Time felt like a mixed bag to me, it won the Clarke as well as being pretty popular. This is a big deal for BL. Pacific81 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 (edited) I'm really excited for this: the quality of the Children of Time series ranks very highly in my book, so genuinely interested to see what this'll be like! It does also make me wonder whether other authors of renown in the genre will come across to do similar things from time-to-time with greater frequency, perhaps to supplement the more frequent (in recent time) submission opportunities? Edited September 28, 2020 by Chaeron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandlemad Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 It does also make me wonder whether other authors of renown in the genre will come across to do similar things from time-to-time with greater frequency, perhaps to supplement the more frequent (in recent time) submission opportunities? It does seem to suggest a bit of a recent change in attitude from BL in the last while. Paul Kearney and Cassandra Khaw would be other moderately prominent SF/F authors who've done work for them, as opposed to writers who work almost exclusively in 40k stuff. Before that I think you'd have to go back to Charlie Stross and Storm Constantine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareddm Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 It does also make me wonder whether other authors of renown in the genre will come across to do similar things from time-to-time with greater frequency, perhaps to supplement the more frequent (in recent time) submission opportunities? It does seem to suggest a bit of a recent change in attitude from BL in the last while. Paul Kearney and Cassandra Khaw would be other moderately prominent SF/F authors who've done work for them, as opposed to writers who work almost exclusively in 40k stuff. Before that I think you'd have to go back to Charlie Stross and Storm Constantine. *Cries in Dark Hunter* Umbra Sumus forever... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandlemad Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 *Cries in Dark Hunter* Umbra Sumus forever... Poor chap has had almost comically bad luck in his publishing career, that must have felt like a bad joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelborn Posted September 28, 2020 Author Share Posted September 28, 2020 (edited) Mind to elaborate via pm? Wanted to give the Dark Hunters a go one day to have a different take on the Khans sons. Edited September 28, 2020 by Kelborn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandlemad Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Mind to elaborate via pm? Wanted to give the Dark Hunters a go one day to have a different take on the Khans sons. Done. There's no real secret, it's just an unfortunate copyright dispute with another author over the term 'Dark Hunter'. cheywood 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 It does also make me wonder whether other authors of renown in the genre will come across to do similar things from time-to-time with greater frequency, perhaps to supplement the more frequent (in recent time) submission opportunities? It does seem to suggest a bit of a recent change in attitude from BL in the last while. Paul Kearney and Cassandra Khaw would be other moderately prominent SF/F authors who've done work for them, as opposed to writers who work almost exclusively in 40k stuff. Before that I think you'd have to go back to Charlie Stross and Storm Constantine. That's what I was thinking, so definitely interesting to keep an eye on. I wonder how many people would actively follow a favoured writer across to IP related writing... I've done this to be fair, but probably not the aim even if it might be the target audience. It's also cool to see what Tchaikovsky is up to hobby-wise on his feed - as with other authors. I'm guessing that fandom will be reflected in the work! (Probably the topic for another thread, but Kearney's novel hasn't yet been republished under a different title has it?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkChaplain Posted September 28, 2020 Share Posted September 28, 2020 Nope, still nothing for Umbra Sumus. It seems they've just decided to take the loss instead of fighting a battle that they would almost certainly win in any law of common sense, but maybe not in the pit that is copyright law. cheywood 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grailkeeper Posted September 29, 2020 Share Posted September 29, 2020 I'm a huge fan. Children of Time and Cage of Souls are fantastic books. I think he is friends with ADB so this isn't a huge surprise. Pacific81 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casual Heresy Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 How did I miss this! He's a brilliant writer (plus a super nice guy as I've worked with him at a book festival). Looking forward to what he brings us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preliminary Bombardment Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 Children of Time is currently 99p in Amazon on the UK, about 70% of the way through and it's very good! Very skilled writer. Pacific81 1 Back to top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aa.logan Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 I just read his short novel (novella?), Ironclads, which I really enjoyed. That and his book Dogs of War as well as the space battles in Children of Ruin are enough to convince me that he can handle military SF and action just as well as the cerebral high-concept stuff. I’m increasingly looking forward to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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