* THREE DARK NOVELLAS BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHILDREN OF TIME SERIES *'Brutal, inhuman, and strangely awe-inspiring' - LOCUS 'A perfect pay-off' - SFX 'A masterclass in concise storytelling' - SCIFINOW'Stands proud with 1984 or Maddaddam' - FANTASY HIVETHE FUTURE IS OPPRESSION.Scions, sonko, landlords: whatever you call them, they're the super rich, the princes of capitalism, living off the labour - and the deaths - of the swarming masses and all too happy to see the world burn to preserve their luxurious lives.In three critically-acclaimed novellas, the 'British master of science fiction' (Reactor) takes you down into the mud and horror of a future battlefield, into the dust and burning heat of a scorched equator, into the grinding poverty of a newly-feudal village, with the folk who give their lives every day in the service of undeserving masters... and sows the seed of revolution.Collecting Tchaikovsky's critically acclaimed novellas Ironclads (2017), Firewalkers (2020) and Ogres (2022) for the first time, Terrible Worlds: Revolutions gives you three glimpses of hope for a better future.

* THE CLASSIC MILITARY NOVELLA BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHILDREN OF TIME SERIES *'Brutal, inhuman, and strangely awe-inspiring' - LOCUS MAGAZINE'Engaging, very well-written, and offers new twists on popular tropes' - CIVILIAN READER'Bleak, but also strangely alluring, in an imposing, terrifying kind of way' - BIBLIOSANCTUM SCIONS HAVE NO LIMITS. SCIONS DO NOT DIE. AND SCIONS DO NOT DISAPPEAR.Sergeant 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 Ironclad-killer out there? And how are common soldiers lacking the protection afforded the rich supposed to survive the battlefield of tomorrow?

* THE STUNNING DYSTOPIAN NOVELLA BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHILDREN OF TIME SERIES *'A perfect pay-off' - SFX MAGAZINE'A masterclass in concise storytelling' - SCIFINOW'You owe it to yourself to check this one out' - AT BOUNDARY'S EDGE'A brutally honest look at humanity' - THE NERD DAILYFIREWALKERS ARE BRAVE. FIREWALKERS ARE RESOURCEFUL. FIREWALKERS ARE EXPENDABLE.The Earth is burning. Nothing can survive at the Anchor; not without water and power. But the ultra-rich, waiting for their ride off the dying Earth? They can buy water. And thanks to their investment, the sun can provide power.But someone has to repair the solar panels when they fail, down in the deserts below. Kids like Mao, and Lupé, and Hotep; kids with brains and guts but no hope. The Firewalkers.

* THREE DARK NOVELLAS BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHILDREN OF TIME SERIES *'Brutal, inhuman, and strangely awe-inspiring' - LOCUS 'A perfect pay-off' - SFX 'A masterclass in concise storytelling' - SCIFINOW'Stands proud with 1984 or Maddaddam' - FANTASY HIVETHE FUTURE IS OPPRESSION.Scions, sonko, landlords: whatever you call them, they're the super rich, the princes of capitalism, living off the labour - and the deaths - of the swarming masses and all too happy to see the world burn to preserve their luxurious lives.In three critically-acclaimed novellas, the 'British master of science fiction' (Reactor) takes you down into the mud and horror of a future battlefield, into the dust and burning heat of a scorched equator, into the grinding poverty of a newly-feudal village, with the folk who give their lives every day in the service of undeserving masters... and sows the seed of revolution.Collecting Tchaikovsky's critically acclaimed novellas Ironclads (2017), Firewalkers (2020) and Ogres (2022) for the first time, Terrible Worlds: Revolutions gives you three glimpses of hope for a better future.

* THE CLASSIC MILITARY NOVELLA BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHILDREN OF TIME SERIES *'Brutal, inhuman, and strangely awe-inspiring' - LOCUS MAGAZINE'Engaging, very well-written, and offers new twists on popular tropes' - CIVILIAN READER'Bleak, but also strangely alluring, in an imposing, terrifying kind of way' - BIBLIOSANCTUM SCIONS HAVE NO LIMITS. SCIONS DO NOT DIE. AND SCIONS DO NOT DISAPPEAR.Sergeant 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 Ironclad-killer out there? And how are common soldiers lacking the protection afforded the rich supposed to survive the battlefield of tomorrow?

* THE STUNNING DYSTOPIAN NOVELLA BY THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CHILDREN OF TIME SERIES *'A perfect pay-off' - SFX MAGAZINE'A masterclass in concise storytelling' - SCIFINOW'You owe it to yourself to check this one out' - AT BOUNDARY'S EDGE'A brutally honest look at humanity' - THE NERD DAILYFIREWALKERS ARE BRAVE. FIREWALKERS ARE RESOURCEFUL. FIREWALKERS ARE EXPENDABLE.The Earth is burning. Nothing can survive at the Anchor; not without water and power. But the ultra-rich, waiting for their ride off the dying Earth? They can buy water. And thanks to their investment, the sun can provide power.But someone has to repair the solar panels when they fail, down in the deserts below. Kids like Mao, and Lupé, and Hotep; kids with brains and guts but no hope. The Firewalkers.