Description: Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller returns to a world steeped in magic - and the Tyrant Philosophers' campaign to bring reason, logic and 'perfection' to it.
Brief description: Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British science-fiction and fantasy writer known for a wide-variety of work including the Children of Time, Final Architecture, Dogs of War, Tyrant Philosophers and Shadows of the Apt series, as well as standalone books such as Elder Race, Doors of Eden, Spiderlight and many others. Children of Time and its series has won the Arthur C Clarke and BSFA awards, and his other works have won the British Fantasy, British Science Fiction and Sidewise Awards.
Review Quotes:
"Tchaikovsky's Tyrant Philosophers series is not only his best work, but a major work of modern fantasy" --Abigail Nussbaum, Locus
"A great instalment in the series" --Voice Mag "Pretenders to the Throne of God is Adrian Tchaikovsky at his most confident. It's a siege novel that feels vast and intimate at once, built from a mosaic of perspectives that somehow lock together with unnerving precision... Brutal, clever, bleakly funny, and endlessly humane. A masterpiece of character-driven epic fantasy, and the strongest entry in the Tyrant Philosophers saga so far." --No Rerolls "Praise for The Tyrant Philosophers Series: City of Last Chances is the love child of Night Watch by Terry Pratchett and Hav by Jan Morris while being entirely its own thing with a polyphonic narrative... Don't even read the review. Just go get it.' - The Middle Shelf 'Quite simply superb, diplomatic and political shenanigans edge towards brutal all-out war in this darkly intricate and original novel.' LoveReading, Star Book 'Exceptional.... Not to be missed' - Publishers Weekly, Starred review 'Dense, dark, ingenious, ironic, complex, often funny, and always smart'" --Locus