Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() To begin, what is Elder Race about and what kind of a world is it set in?Įlder Race is the story of a feudal fantasy world where the queen’s errant youngest daughter goes on a quest to destroy a demon threatening her land (and world), for which she must recruit an ancient semi-human wizard of immense power known only through legends and old family histories.Īt the same time, Elder Race is also the story of a junior anthropologist studying the post-tech culture that an old Earth colony has devolved into, battling loneliness and depression after he gets cut off from Earth, and who unexpectedly gets approached by one of the locals and ends up, very much against his best judgment, accompanying her on some kind of epic journey. In the following email interview, Tchaikovsky explains what inspired and influenced this genre-mashing story. Clarke famously once said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” It’s an idea that fellow science fiction (and fantasy) writer Adrian Tchaikovsky is putting to the test in his new sci-fi / fantasy novella Elder Race ( paperback, Kindle). ![]()
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