Lives of Bitter Rain
A Tyrant Philosophers Novella
$39.33
- Hardcover
144 pages
- Release Date
2 February 2026
Summary
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring ‘Perfection’ and ‘Correctness’ to an imperfect world.
But before these ruthless Tyrant Philosophers send in their legions, they despatch Outreach – the rain before the storm.
Outreach is that part of the Pal machine responsible for diplomacy — converting enemies into friends, achieving through words what an army of five thousand could not, urging the oppressed to overthrow the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035911448 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035911442 |
| Author: | Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Head of Zeus -- an AdAstra Book |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 2 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 152mm x 18mm |
| Series: | The Tyrant Philosophers |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
PRAISE FOR THE TYRANT PHILOSOPHERS SERIES:‘Exceptional…. Not to be missed’ - Publishers Weekly, Starred review‘Brilliant’ A Daily Mail Book of the Year‘An intriguing tangle, dense, dark, ingenious, ironic, complex, often funny, and always smart’
* Locus *About The Author
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British science-fiction and fantasy writer known for a wide-variety of work including the Children of Time, Final Architecture, Dogs of War, Tyrant Philosophers and Shadows of the Apt series, as well as standalone books such as Elder Race, Doors of Eden, Spiderlight and many others. Children of Time and its series has won the Arthur C Clarke and BSFA awards, and his other works have won the British Fantasy, British Science Fiction and Sidewise Awards.
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