Adrian Tchaikovsky

“You're not like other Wasps." "Aren't I?" Aagen smiled, but it was a painful smile. "No doubt you've killed my kinsmen by…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“The ice had been retreating. Humanity had sprung back swiftly, expanded, fought its small wars, re-industrialized, tripping constantly over reminders of what…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“ We couldn't trust them. They couldn't trust us. Mutual attempts at destruction are the only logical result . He thought of…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“Back in Seven Trees, the remaining local males are hard at work. Some have fled, but most of the evacuees are female.…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“there is a depth to life beyond the simple dimensions that she can perceive and calculate in, and so . . . who knows?”

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“The past is no man’s clay for remodelling. It is fired the moment it is moulded, alas. I”

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“We do not respect our enemies; we despair of them. Your struggle, your fierce will to prevail in spite of all, we…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“I have taken on many Understandings in my life [...]. I have listened to another Messenger's incomprehensible signals in the night. The…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“Justice is like some unnatural hybrid flower you people have bred. It will not live long unless you keep it sheltered and…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“Mankind brooks no competitors, She has explained to them – not even its own reflection. For”

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“It took a long time to work out how to do it, but in the end she was only information, after all.…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“And then it dropped lower, and her eyes caught it in all its pale majesty. It was a moth, no more, no…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“A bandit, a man-hunter, a lawbreaker, a bow for hire. I never wanted any grand cause. If it looks like I'm fighting…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“She has improved the lives of her species in a dozen separate ways, for she has a mind that can see answers…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“Ah, but it is an interesting thing, that these things can so seldom be proved. If I were to perform some piece…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“perhaps pain’s the enemy no matter which side you’re on,”

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“soothing away the trepidation consuming her, replacing it with the undeniable certainty that there is more.”

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“In Collegium it had been the fashion, while he had been resident there, to paint death as a grey-skinned, balding Beetle man…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“I get a prompt about using my Dissociative Cognition System. It takes considerable effort to make even that decision, but I manage…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“It is a mark of how far her species has come, that this is the only openly acceptable time when killing a…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“should result in a guileless Wasp artificer mouthing statements prepared”

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“ I was young at Myna, that first time. When had the change come? He had retreated to here, to Collegium, to…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“Shadows of the Apt”

— Adrian Tchaikovsky

“I want to try something a bit lateral,’ Holsten explained. ‘Is it likely to get us blown up ahead of schedule?’ ‘I…

— Adrian Tchaikovsky