Terrible Worlds: Destinations - by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Three acclaimed novellas by the Arthur C. Clarke-award-winning "British master of science fiction"

The Future Is The Journey.

The vastness of space, the endless ribbon of time, worlds beyond our own: humanity has always been driven to explore, to pass the horizon and enter the unknown. For too many, that drive is what ultimately destroys us.

In three critically-acclaimed novellas, the "British master of science fiction" (Reactor) takes you into a mysterious artefact at the edge of the Solar system, to the very last day of time, into a world apparently born of children's stories, with fearless - and sometimes hapless - explorers... and shows us why sometimes it's best to stay at home.

Collecting Tchaikovsky's critically acclaimed novellas Walking to Aldebaran (2019), One Day All This Will Be Yours (2021) and And Put Away Childish Things (2023) for the first time, Terrible Worlds: Destinations gives you three glimpses of the limits of reality.

Review Quotes

"As funny as it is thought-provoking." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) on One Day All This Will Be Yours

"For anyone who enjoyed Lev Grossman's The Magicians or Seanan McGuire's Every Heart a Doorway and who understands that the worlds next to ours may be filled with darkness."--Library Journal on And Put Away Childish Things

"Hilarious, unsettling, and horrifying in equal measure." --Grimdark Magazine on Walking to Aldebaran

About the Author

Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the acclaimed ten-book Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series, and other novels, novellas and short stories including Children of Time (which won the Arthur C. Clarke award in 2016), and its sequel, Children of Ruin (which won the British Science Fiction Award in 2020).. He lives in Leeds in the UK and his hobbies include entomology and board and role-playing games.