Shadows of the Apt

Does SFF have a problem with women? Do women have a problem with it? A remarkable number of incidents over the last year or so have certainly put the issue in the foreground. It’s hard to avoid the feel of a storm getting ready to break. Here are some of the flashpoints. For the record, my personal opinion in […]

31^st October to (counts on fingers) 3^rd November is when mild-mannered bespectacled Fantasycon tears off its shirt and reveals the bare nipples of World Fantasy Convention 2013, and if we're thinking bare nipples in the UK, we must of course be talking of Brighton. I am at this, as a very minor footnote to a very large ensemble […]

Another long hiatus. I am, I kid you not, on the last chapter of the first draft of The Tiger and the Wolf, the first of me new series. This has taken about 10 months to put together, a lot longer than my usual six, partly because it's the first in this setting, hence there's a lot of build […]

(Usual apologies about the delay, excuses re being busy with writing etc. etc. etc. Seriously, I've had the line edits in for Seal of the Worm, on a murderous deadline, so it's all true. But I should blog more, I know). Anyway, we rejoin our irregular viewing with a piece of blatant and shameless self-promotion! My very first short […]

So, that was Geekfest, a large-scale convention that came out of nowhere around the beginning of the year, funded itself via Kickstarter, occupied a large chunk of two big hotels at Heathrow and had a mind-bogglingly bewildering variety of panels, lectures, games and activities for fans of just about all tastes. And it was, frankly, wonderful. I had a fantastic […]

I did that last post too soon, didn't I? Because each of the following is also a Thing that I should report, namely: I have been interviewed by London Calling, and that is a Thing that you can find here. There's a good picture of me with the Invisible Man, before we went our separate ways. Simultaneously (how do […]

Just a brief post to give my schedule for the doings on 8^th August and for Geekfest. On 8^th August I'm signing at the Milton Keynes Waterstones (Unit 72, Midsummer Place, Midsummer Blvd, Milton Keynes) at 2pm. After that I will be doing hopefully a reading, a Q&A and signing at Leadenhall Market Waterstones (2–3 Whittington Avenue, Leadenhall Market, London, EC3V […]

First of all, and God protect and preserve me, but I am now on Twitter @aptshadow . Please boost my following if you're a fellow sufferer. I may occasionally say something amusing, or at least make snarky comments on things other people have said (1). Secondly, and far more excitingly… The Adrian Tchaikovsky Short Story Collection is coming! […]

1. I am aghast at your suggestion! Aghast!(1) 2. About to deploy wrist-mounted blaster cannon / interviewed by a Dalek 3. Consumed with horrid glee. 4. I disagree with what you say and shall destroy you later. 5. "With a look of pensive meaning / as of ducks that die in tempests" (2) 6. Dropping phat beats. 7. With friends (the […]

I have some dates coming up that I'd like to share with you. Firstly, and inconveniently just before the new book, I'm at Edge Lit doing various panels & c. in Derby on Saturday the 13^th July. After that, War Master's Gate is well and truly released into the wild on the 1^st August (and, from experience, anything […]