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Some believe alliances with other species can save them. And no planet is safe.The Human Colony worlds are in turmoil as they face extinction.

This time, the artefacts that preserved entire worlds from destruction are ineffective. For, forty years later, the galaxy's greatest alien enemy has returned. Eyes of the Void is the second high-octane instalment in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture space opera trilogy.'One of the most interesting and accomplished writers in speculative fiction' - Christopher PaoliniWhat waits in the shadows as we fight our greatest foe?After one great battle, the Architects disappeared. Ilmar, some say, is the worst place in the world and the gateway to a thousand worse places.Īdrian Tchaikovsky’s City of Last Chancesis due to be published by Head of Zeus/Aries in the UK, on December 8th.From the author of the thrilling science-fiction epic Children of Time, which won the prestigious Arthur C. What will be the spark that lights the conflagration?ĭespite the city’s refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be the Anchorwood – that dark grove of trees, that primeval remnant, that portal, when the moon is full, to strange and distant shores. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse. There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now.

Really looking forward to reading this one! Due to be published by Head of Zeus/Aries in December, check out the synopsis:Ī darkly inventive portrait of a city under occupation and on the verge of revolution. Long-time readers of CR will know that Tchaikovsky is one of my favourite authors, so any new novel of his is something worth shouting about and drawing attention to.

I was doing some typical mid-afternoon-searching-for-new-books, and I stumbled across this rather fetching cover for one of Adrian Tchaikovsky‘s upcoming novels, City of Last Chances.