Adrian Tchaikovsky In Conversation With Mike Brooks

Join us for a special evening with Adrian Tchaikovsky in conversation with Mike Brooks as we celebrate the release of his new Sci-fi novel, Shroud.

They looked into the darkness. The darkness looked back.

A commercial expedition to a distant star system discovers a pitch-black moon alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is deadly to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud.

Under no circumstances can a human survive Shroud’s inhospitable surface – but a catastrophic accident forces Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne to make an emergency landing in a barely adequate escape vehicle. Alone, and fighting for survival, the two women embark on a gruelling journey across land, sea and air in search of salvation.

But as they travel, Juna and Mai begin to understand Shroud’s unnerving alien species. It also begins to understand them. If they escape Shroud, they’ll somehow have to explain the impossible and translate the incredible. That is, if they make it back at all.

Adrian will talk to Mike Brooks about his new book before an audience Q&A and book signing.

Adrian Tchaikovsky has written over twenty novels, five novellas and several story collections. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series and other novels, novellas and short stories. Children of Time won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Children of Ruin and Shards of Earth both won the British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel. The Tiger and the Wolf won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel, while And Put Away Childish Things won the BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction.

Mike Brooks is the author of The God-King Chronicles epic fantasy series, beginning withThe Black Coast; the Keiko series of grimy space-opera novels, Dark Run, Dark Sky and Dark Deeds; and various works for Games Workshop’s Black Library imprint, including  Brutal Kunnin and Alpharius: Head of Hydra. He was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, and moved to Nottingham to go to university when he was eighteen, where he still lives with his wife, cats, and snakes.

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