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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

On the stall of SFW (Science Fiction World magazine in China), signed bookplates from a selection of int'l writers are available for buyers reaching a threshold (p5). Adrian Tchaikovsky's is among them. Since I've got plenty of the man's signatures already, I opted for @leeuwenhart.bsky.social 's.

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Shanghai Book Fair '26 saw @aptshadow.bsky.social 's books from three Chinese publishing houses: p2: four of the Terrible Worlds novellas; p3&p4: the first three Children of Times books; p5: Cage of Souls (previously serialised on SFW magazine, as well as some others, yet to be published in books)

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Following the promo post, Chinese covers for the first three Children of Time books are all revealed in the next day. src: weibo.com/6045346855/Q... There is also a Chinese cover reveal for Cage of Souls on the same day, the Sci-Fi Day - since the month and the day spell out 42 (in Chinese format)

Chinese ed. of Cage of Souls (灵魂囚笼), whose translation has been serialised on their monthly magazine before, with a similar cover design.

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

i've informed them about this. Let's see if there's time to correct it.

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It should be "Children of Time". sorry, too excited...

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Eight Light Minutes released a teaser on Weibo and Rednote (pic1), mimicking Rocky's tone in the post. However, xerosoul has already spoiled the Chinese cover (pic2) of Children's Time. (Both links in alt text) I'm wondering if the spider in pic1 is drawn by @aptshadow.bsky.social himself😜

警告！人类不可以小看蜘蛛。
Warning! Humans shall not underestimate spiders!
source: https://weibo.com/6045346855/QyNZ5qDOp

Cover reveal of Childer of Time (Chinese edition).
source: https://weibo.com/5989953755/QyKAaCH1s

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

suppose I also need to thank Tchaikovsky for leaving a breathing space between Pretenders to the Throne of God and Children of Strife, for me to accommodate this 😅

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"Movie hype detected. What's your next read?" "Project Hail Mary re-read!"

Project Hail Mary physical copy open to the very first page of Chapter 1

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

We're going on an adventure!🥳

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Then move on to Lives of Bitter Rain (AT says himself in the afterwords that it can be read before or after Days of Shattered Faith). It has plenty of (fast-moving) plot also but it's short! (shorter, anyway😅)

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Four different eligible series in four years in a row. What a feat! Those three in previous years have all made it to the short list at least. Good luck with Dogs of War, it's well worth it (as always)!

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Good to know so many are on their way to China! Thus far four of them have hit bookstores and another four magazine kiosks. Personally I hadn't seen news of five of them before this update: Dogs of War, Elder Race, Made Things, Feast and Famine and Saturation Point. Good luck!

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

That image is definitely from a different book with a similar title, as pointed out in the links above.

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

imagine one day: Me: Hi, Siri. My iPhone: OK, I will now play Warbreaker for you.

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

My very bookish Christmas tree v2 (again, all physical books that I read this year). Merry X'mas!

all physical books that I read this year, stacked roughly in a Christmas tree's shape.

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Adrian Tchaikovsky(@aptshadow.bsky.social)'s House of Open Wounds starts its serialisation on Science Fiction World (Translations) this month, two years after the Chinese translation of City of Last Chances. I guess they need to speed up; they are translating the series slower than AT writing it...

Right: a hardcover copy of House of Open Wounds;
Left: it's serialisation (part 1) on SFW Translations

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Hearing reports that some of you have not been informed that we are casting the net far and wide to determine the science fiction and fantasy favorites of the year. Here's me amending that:

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Cast Your Vote for the Best SFF of the Year! - Reactor

Books! Movies! TV shows! Video games! Short fiction! And more!!

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Join us. In honor of hitting triple digits in responses I was awarded one (1) DVD of The Hobbit (1977). It was so cool and metallic. I await my next reward, contingent on the number of responses

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Wasn't you already doing this all the time in your books? For example, in the attached formula from What If? (Downsprout turbine), "ft" and "meter" come side by side🧑‍🤝‍🧑

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

My modest "Tchai Trove". Considering the distance across half the globe, I'm contented with the adequacy😉 (of the quantity). Read all of them, and some more e-books. Enjoyed all of them. Looking forward to the continuations in two major series as well as more standalones from AT in the coming year!

two boxes on my shelf dedicated to Adrian Tchaikovsky's novels.

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

will definitely try it out... someday...

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

One of them will be mine 😄 and another will be bound for Baoshu, whom you've met in Bulgaria last month.

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

... as well as Adrian Tchaikovsky 😀

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Congrats to both of you! You both won! 星体 / Star Body won the Best Introduced Book award (最佳引进图书奖). 最后机会所在的城市 / City of Last Chances won the Best Translation award (最佳翻译奖). Li Keqin (李克勤) did a good job translating this amazing fantasy into Chinese.

City of Last Chances won the Best Translation award

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Katabasis UK edition (R) and its Chinese translation (L). Approaching the end of the former, will probably re-read with the latter.

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

First used: Apple II; First owned: LASER 310, as shown in the photo (re-shot), complete with a B&W TV set, a floppy disk drive on its left and a printer on the right. (looked it up just now and found that it was called VZ-300 in USA)

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

*only* 4 more? I thought these Worlds would go on indefinitely...

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Just finished Bee Speaker and I love Irae!!!

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I found these new covers on B&N the week before. They seem to belong to a new paperback set due in 2026 (along with Bee Speaker paperback?). www.reddit.com/r/AdrianTcha...

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New Dogs of War & Bear Head covers to match Bee Speaker in 2026?

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Part 2 is out too! It comes with a surprise bonus of Human Resources, a short story set in the Service Model universe.

May and July issues of Science Fiction World (Translations), including both parts of Service Model Chinese translation, with the UK edition on the right.

Title and art of Human Resources Chinese translation

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Where does Kris hide her knife?

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Amazing! certainly beats my The Expanse rip-off 3yr ago (www.reddit.com/r/AdrianTcha...)

Trying to visualize the five POV characters of SoE using screenshots from The Expanse

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Both 覆盆子 and 山莓 are correct. They are the same thing in Chinese I think. Some also call it 树莓 so I thought they grow on trees (but this doesn't look like a tree?).

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Reaching 4-digit page numbers for the fourth time this year. (first if not counting re-reads)

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Uncomfortably echoing SK's Rat which I've just read...

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

In Miniature, you wrote, in the note to Your Smart Appliances Talks About You Behind Your Back, that you "have performed it at various places". Can we hear it? I don't mean this piece in the picture; i mean the OTHER in the trailer!

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

not always to me. Sometimes the Undesignated Valet Unit.

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Good for you! Still waiting for my copy, though I've read the English edition last year.

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

City of Last Chances and Cage of Souls have been translated and serialised on SFW(T) previously. Here are their covers:

City of Last Chances, cover of part 1 (of 3)

City of Last Chances, cover of part 2 (of 3). The third part hasn't got its cover from this novel but from another.

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Here comes a nice surprise for my 2025 reads

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Prograft @prograft.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Service Model starts its serialisation in the May issue of Science Fiction World (Translations) in China. This is the cover image of this magazine, just revealed. The banner on the right says "Short-listed for 2025 Hugo Best Novels". The second half will be in the July issue.