Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Czajkowski
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Born	Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Occupation	Author and Legal Executive
Language	English
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Reading
Period	2008 - Present
Genre	Fantasy and science fiction
Subject	Zoology and Psychology
Notable works	Shadows of the Apt series.
Website
shadowsoftheapt.com

Adrian Czajkowski (spelled as Adrian Tchaikovsky in his books) is a British fantasy and science fiction author. His best known work is the Shadows of the Apt series.

Adrian's novel Children of Time (novel) won the 30th Arthur C. Clarke Award on August 24th 2016 at a ceremony in London and was described by author James Lovegrove as "superior stuff, tackling big themes – gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness – with brio".

Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire. He studied Zoology and Psychology at the University of Reading. He then qualified as a Legal Executive. He is currently employed as a Legal Executive in the Commercial Dispute Department of Blacks, Solicitors, Leeds. He lives in Leeds with his wife and son.

After fifteen years of trying to get published, Tchaikovsky obtained his first break in 2008. That year Empire in Black and Gold was published by Tor Books (UK) – an imprint of Pan Macmillan – in the United Kingdom. The series was later picked up for publication in America by Pyr Books. He has stated in his blog, that he chose to publish under the name Tchaikovsky, as the spelling of his given name could have caused potential difficulties for American and British readers in both spelling and pronunciation. This is a common marketing approach in both UK and US publishing industries, where the publishers feel a name should be altered to help sales. Subsequently the American and German editions of the book and its sequels were published under the same name. Tchaikovsky expressed desire that the Polish editions of his novels be printed under his real name, but these too used "Tchaikovsky".