one day all this will be yours by adrian tchaikovsky

I think it’s just such a staple of genre fantasy that I was always going to have a crack at twisting it to fit my crooked imagination. What drew you towards using a portal fantasy world? What did you want to do differently with them?ĪT: It’s something I’ve played about with before in short stories (There’s a short but rather snazzy one in Fox Spirit’s Winter’s Tales for example). I guess I should thank Lewis for paying the groundwork. Weirdly it seems to be one of my concepts that immediately resonates with people. And then the fantasy world, now decidedly decayed, comes and gets him, because it’s fed up with waiting. Except the child doesn’t go there, and instead goes off and becomes a rather unhappy middle aged man. So there’s a lovely portal world just set up to be saved by a valiant child hero. The spiders in space one especially! Childish Things kind of sells itself though. How do you like to booktempt people with And Put Away Childish Things?ĪT: So a lot of my concepts are weird, and have a kind of curve you have to get over, to explain to people why this is fun. I was very lucky to get a little bit of time to talk about the new novella and what this tale explores. Adrian is also going to be rather busy as you will see next month.

These highly enjoyable and intelligent tales. Visiting outer space time travel at the end of all things and now a magical world that can be linked sometimes via a wardrobe.

This week I’ve really enjoyed reading And Put Away Childish Things by Adrian Tchaikovsky the last in the thematically linked Terrible Worlds: Destinations trilogy that covers Walking to Aldebaran and One Day All This Will Be Yours.

One day all this will be yours by adrian tchaikovsky