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Ironclads

Terrible Worlds: Revolutions #1 / 3 ✓
by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Ironclads (Terrible Worlds: Revolutions #1) by Adrian Tchaikovsky
★ 8.00 / 1
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Scions have no limits. Scions do not die. And Scions do not disappear.

Sergent Ted Regan has a problem. A son of one of the great corporate families, a Scion, has gone missing at the front. He should have been protected by his Ironclad - the lethal battle suits that make the Scions masters of war - but something has gone catastrophically wrong.

Now Regan and his men, ill equipped and demoralised, must go behind enemy lines, find the missing Scion, and uncover how his suit failed. Is there a new Ironcald-killer out there? And how are common soldiers lackng the protection afforded the rich supposed to survive the battlefield tomorrow?

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Release date: November 7, 2017

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Tchaikovsky

In the realm of speculative fiction, where the boundaries between science and imagination blur, Adrian Tchaikovsky writes with the precision of a biologist and the curiosity of a philosopher. Known for weaving evolutionary theory into alien worlds and giving sentience to the most unexpected of creatures, he crafts stories that challenge not just what it means to be human—but what it means to be alive.

Tchaikovsky’s breakout novel, Children of Time, didn’t just introduce readers to a distant planet populated by hyper-intelligent spiders—it redefined what readers expect from space opera. Bold, cerebral, and emotionally resonant, the book went on to win the Arthur C. Clarke Award, with its sequel Children of Ruin deepening the saga’s exploration of consciousness, cooperation, and survival. In 2023, the Children of Time series earned the Hugo Award for Best Series, a fitting recognition for stories that dare to look evolution in the eye and ask: what if?

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But his fascination with complex ecosystems and alien intelligences didn’t begin on the page. Born in Lincolnshire and trained in zoology and psychology, Tchaikovsky brings a scientific lens to his storytelling that few in the genre can match. His early background—before turning to writing full-time—includes years practicing law, stage combat training, and tabletop gaming, all of which echo in the structure, pacing, and immersive worldbuilding of his novels.

Whether exploring dystopian landscapes, unraveling genetic legacies, or building entire civilizations from the point of view of insects and cephalopods, Tchaikovsky’s fiction never loses sight of the human thread—our instincts, our flaws, our relentless need to reach beyond the stars.

Asked once why so many of his stories feature spiders, he replied with characteristic candor: “They’re alien enough to be unsettling, but familiar enough to be us.” That balance—between the foreign and the familiar—is at the heart of his work, and why readers keep coming back, eager to see what strange future he’ll unearth next.

Terrible Worlds: Revolutions

A series featuring stories centred about dystopian futures of inequality and uprising.

Terrible Worlds: Revolutions consists of three primary books, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads and considered as a complete series. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

Ironclads (Terrible Worlds: Revolutions #1)
★ 8.00 / 1
Firewalkers (Terrible Worlds: Revolutions #2)
★ 9.00 / 1
Ogres (Terrible Worlds: Revolutions #3)
★ 9.00 / 1
Terrible Worlds: Revolutions (Terrible Worlds: Revolutions)
★ 9.00 / 1


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