The New Scientist Book Club has been reading Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Alien Clay, a science fiction epic in which a political prisoner must unlock the secrets of a strange and dangerous planet. Best known for his series Shadows of the Apt and for his Hugo Award-winning Children of Time series, Tchaikovsky has arguably cemented himself as a master of science fiction. This week, our fiction reviewer Emily H. Wilson caught up with Tchaikovsky to delve into his disciplined writing process, the inevitable interweaving of politics and science, and the true definition of “science fiction”.
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