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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240404T183000
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SUMMARY:SFF Panel with Adrian Tchaikovsky\, Lauren Beukes and Justin Lee Anderson
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9588″ img_size=”500×500″ onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://www.waterstones.com/events/sff-panel-with-adrian-tchaikovsky-lauren-beukes-and-justin-lee-anderson/manchester-deansgate”][vc_column_text] \nVIA WATERSTONES:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text el_class=””]Join us for a night of all things Sci-Fi and Fantasy at our fantastic panel event\, featuring multi-award-winning authors Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time)\, Lauren Beukes (Shining Girls) and Justin Lee Anderson (the Eidyn Saga). The trio will be chatting about their latest works and answering audience questions\, followed by a signing. \nTchaikovsky’s ALIEN CLAY is a disturbing and prescient slice of space opera\, as a professor condemned to study on a forbidding alien planet that holds a tantalising secret. \nBeukes’ BRIDGE is a scintillatingly realised slice of speculative fiction\, as the daughter of a maverick scientist stumbles upon a potential gateway to other worlds. \nAnderson’s THE BITTER CROWN\, second in his stunning Eidyn Saga\, returns readers to a world where the war for a kingdom exits the shadows now that a terrifying secret has been revealed.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text] \nAbout the Authors:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9596″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://adriantchaikovsky.com/stand-alone-novels.html”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY was born in Lincolnshire before heading off to Reading to study psychology and zoology. For reasons unclear even to himself he subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds\, where he now lives with his wife and son. He’s the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series\, the Echoes of the Fall trilogy\, The Doors of Eden\, and The Final Architecture series. Children of Time was the winner of the 30th Anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9580″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://laurenbeukes.com/books/bridge/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]LAUREN BEUKES is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Shining Girls\, adapted by AppleTV+ starring Elisabeth Moss\, as well as Zoo City\, which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award\, Moxyland\, Broken Monsters\, and Afterland. Her novels have been published in twenty-four countries\, and she’s also a screenwriter\, comics writer\, journalist\, and award-winning documentary maker. She lives in London with two trouble cats and her daughter.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9633″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://justinleeanderson.com/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””]JUSTIN LEE ANDERSON was a professional writer and editor for 15 years before his debut novel Carpet Diem was published and won the 2018 Audie award for humour. His second novel\, The Lost War\, won the 2020 SPFBO award. Born in Scotland\, he spent his childhood in the US thanks to his dad’s football (soccer) career\, and also lived in the south of France for three years. He now lives with his family just outside his hometown of Edinburgh.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fevents%2Fsff-panel-with-adrian-tchaikovsky-lauren-beukes-and-justin-lee-anderson%2Fmanchester-deansgate|title:Full%20Event%20Info|target:%20_blank|”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][gsf_button title=”Buy Bridge” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Flaurenbeukes.com%2Fbooks%2Fbridge%2F|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][gsf_button title=”Buy Alien Clay” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fadriantchaikovsky.com%2Fstand-alone-novels.html|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/4″][gsf_button title=”Buy The Bitter Crown” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fjustinleeanderson.com%2Fbooks%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/sff-panel-with-adrian-tchaikovsky-lauren-beukes-and-justin-lee-anderson/
LOCATION:Waterstones Manchester Deansgate\, Waterstones Manchester Deansgate
CATEGORIES:Book Signings,Bookshop Visits,Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240403T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240403T203000
DTSTAMP:20260520T011031
CREATED:20240215T004757Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Adrian Tchaikovsky and Lauren Beukes
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9593″ img_size=”500×500″ onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-with-adrian-tchaikovsky-and-lauren-beukes/bath”][vc_column_text] \nVIA WATERSTONES:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9596″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/adrian-tchaikovsky/alien-clay/9781035013746″][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky:  \nThey travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . \nOn the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they go? \nProfessor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close. Then his wishes become a reality in the worst way. His political activism sees him exiled from Earth to Kiln’s extrasolar labour camp. There\, he’s condemned to work under an alien sky until he dies. \nKiln boasts a ravenous\, chaotic ecosystem like nothing seen on Earth. The monstrous alien life interacts in surprising\, sometimes shocking ways with the human body\, so Arton will risk death on a daily basis. However\, the camp’s oppressive regime might just kill him first. If Arton can somehow escape both fates\, the world of Kiln holds a wondrous\, terrible secret. It will redefine life and intelligence as he knows it\, and might just set him free.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9580″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://laurenbeukes.com/books/bridge/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text]Bridge by Lauren Beukes:  \nBridge’s maverick scientist mother Jo is dead. Now she’s examining everything Jo left behind. Which is when she finds her big secret. Is it a drug? A gateway to other worlds? Jo believed so. \nBridge is desperate to see her mother again. Will do anything\, risk anything. Including search for her in those other realities. What she doesn’t know is that others are after Jo’s secret. And some believe anyone it touches must be destroyed. \nBridge? She just wants to find her mom.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fevents%2Fan-evening-with-adrian-tchaikovsky-and-lauren-beukes%2Fbath|title:Buy%20Tickets|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][gsf_button title=”Buy Bridge” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Flaurenbeukes.com%2Fbooks%2Fbridge%2F|title:Buy%20Bridge|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][gsf_button title=”Buy Alien Clay” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.panmacmillan.com%2Fauthors%2Fadrian-tchaikovsky%2Falien-clay%2F9781035013746|title:Buy%20Alien%20Clay|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/an-evening-with-adrian-tchaikovsky-and-lauren-beukes/
LOCATION:Waterstones Bath\, Waterstones Bath
CATEGORIES:Bookshop Visits,Interviews
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240402T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240402T200000
DTSTAMP:20260520T011031
CREATED:20240213T195004Z
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SUMMARY:Lauren Beukes and Adrian Tchaikovsky in conversation with Gareth L. Powell
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9583″ img_size=”500×500″ onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://bristol.stanfords.co.uk/2024/02/01/adrian-tchaikovsky-alien-clay/”][vc_column_text] \nVIA STANFORDS BRISTOL:\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text]Don those pressure suits\, charge your lasers and prepare for lift-off as we get ready to embark upon an evening of speculation with award-winning science-fiction authors Adrian Tchaikovsky and Lauren Beukes. The event will be chaired by Gareth L. Powell\, two-time winner of the BSFA Award and Locus Award finalist.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9596″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://adriantchaikovsky.com/stand-alone-novels.html”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text] \nAlien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky: \nA thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky. \nThey travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . \nOn the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they go? \nProfessor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close. Then his wishes become a \nreality in the worst way. His political activism sees him exiled from Earth to Kiln’s extrasolar labour camp. There\, he’s condemned to work under an alien sky until he dies. \nKiln boasts a ravenous\, chaotic ecosystem like nothing seen on Earth. The monstrous alien life interacts in surprising\, sometimes shocking ways with the human body\, so Arton will risk death on a daily basis. However\, the camp’s oppressive regime might just kill him first. If Arton can somehow escape both fates\, the world of Kiln holds a wondrous\, terrible secret. It will redefine life and intelligence as he knows it\, and might just set him free.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/6″][vc_single_image image=”9580″ img_size=”large” onclick=”custom_link” link=”https://laurenbeukes.com/books/bridge/”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”5/6″][vc_column_text el_class=””] \nBridge by Lauren Beukes: \nPage-turning and ambitious\, Bridge is a dazzlingly inventive speculative thriller with an unforgettable cast of characters\, and the work of a novelist at the height of her powers. \nBridge’s maverick scientist mother Jo is dead. Now she’s examining everything Jo left behind.\nWhich is when she finds her big secret. \nIs it a drug? A gateway to other worlds? Jo believed so. \nBridge is desperate to see her mother again.\nWill do anything\, risk anything. \nIncluding search for her in those other realities. What she doesn’t know is that others are after Jo’s secret. And some believe anyone it touches must be destroyed. \nBridge? She just wants to find her mom …[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text] \nAbout the Authors\n[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_column_text]ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY was born in Woodhall Spa\, Lincolnshire\, has practised law and now writes full time. He’s also studied stage-fighting\, perpetrated amateur dramatics and has a keen interest in entomology and tabletop games. Adrian 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. The Children of Time series won the Hugo Award for best series\, while 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. \nLAUREN BEUKES is the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of The Shining Girls\, which has been adapted by AppleTV+ starring Elisabeth Moss\, as well as Zoo City\, which won the Arthur C. Clarke Award\, Moxyland\, Broken Monsters\, and Afterland. Her novels have been published in twenty-four countries\, and she’s also a screenwriter\, comics writer\, journalist\, and award-winning documentary maker. She lives in London with two trouble cats and her daughter. \nGARETH L. POWELL was born and raised in Bristol\, where he still lives\, and his early mentors included Diana Wynne Jones and Helen Dunmore. His novels have twice won the BSFA Award\, and been finalists for both the Locus Award in the US and the Seiun Award in Japan. He is probably best known for his acclaimed Embers of War space opera series\, which includes the novels Embers of War\, Fleet of Knives\, and Light of Impossible Stars. He is a popular guest and speaker at conventions and literary events\, and can often be found on Twitter @garethlpowell giving free advice to aspiring authors.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”90″ tablet=”70″ tablet_portrait=”60″ mobile_landscape=”50″ mobile=”40″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fbristol.stanfords.co.uk%2F2024%2F02%2F01%2Fadrian-tchaikovsky-alien-clay%2F|title:Buy%20Tickets|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][gsf_button title=”Buy Bridge” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Flaurenbeukes.com%2Fbooks%2Fbridge%2F|title:Buy%20Bridge|target:_blank”][gsf_space desktop=”0″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/3″][gsf_button title=”Buy Alien Clay” color=”red” align=”center” button_block=”on” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fadriantchaikovsky.com%2Fstand-alone-novels.html|title:Buy%20Alien%20Clay|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/lauren-beukes-and-adrian-tchaikovsky-in-conversation-with-gareth-l-powell/
LOCATION:Stanfords Bristol\, Stanfords Bristol
CATEGORIES:Bookshop Visits,Interviews
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240325T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240325T193000
DTSTAMP:20260520T011031
CREATED:20240213T190631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240321T152702Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Adrian Tchaikovsky (Interviewed by Lauren Beukes)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row content_width=”full”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”9224″ img_size=”500×515″ alignment=”center” onclick=”custom_link” img_link_target=”_blank” link=”https://www.davids-bookshops.co.uk/blogs/news/author-events”][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][vc_column_text]Via David’s Bookshop: We are very excited to announce a forthcoming event with Hugo and Authur C. Clarke award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky. He’ll be coming to David’s to talk about his latest novel Alien Clay – an ambitious standalone that takes place in a far-distant future on a hostile alien world. Adrian will be interviewed by Lauren Beukes\, author of Bridge.[/vc_column_text][gsf_space desktop=”45″ tablet=”35″ tablet_portrait=”30″ mobile_landscape=”25″ mobile=”20″][gsf_button title=”Full Event Info” style=”link” color=”red” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.davids-bookshops.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Fnews%2Fauthor-events|title:Full%20Event%20Info|target:%20_blank|”][gsf_space desktop=”25″ tablet=”20″ tablet_portrait=”20″ mobile_landscape=”20″ mobile=”20″][gsf_button title=”Buy Tickets” style=”link” color=”red” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fthelittleboxoffice.com%2Fdavids-bookshops%2Fevent%2Fview%2F196496|title:Buy%20Tcikets|target:_blank”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://laurenbeukes.com/events/adrian-tchaikovsky-for-alien-clay-interviewed-by-lauren-beukes/
LOCATION:David’s Bookshop Letchworth\, David's Bookshop Letchworth
CATEGORIES:Bookshop Visits
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