Authors: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Filipo
– Fly-kinden rogue in the employ of Forman Sands
Forman Sands
– Halfbreed assassin in the employ of Helmess Broiler
Geontes
– Krakind Kerebroi, agent of Claeon
Grampos
– Tarantula-kinden in Kanateris
Greenwise Artector
– Beetle-kinden magnate in Helleron
Gribbern
– Deepclaw Onychoi Pelagist
Grief
– Butterfly-kinden, Monarch of Princep Salmae
Gude
– Fly-kinden helmswoman of the
Tidenfree
crew
Haelyn
– Sepia-kinden Kerebroi, majordomo to Claeon
Heiracles
– Krakind Kerebroi, insurgent leader
Helmess Broiler
– Beetle-kinden Assembler
Honory Bellowern
– Beetle-kinden, Imperial diplomat
Isseleema
– Spider-kinden ship-owner
Jaclen Courser
– Beetle-kinden ship’s master
Janos Outwright
– Beetle-kinden, Chief Officer of the Merchant Companies
Jodry Drillen
– Beetle-kinden Assembler
Jons Allanbridge
– Beetle-kinden aviator
Kratia
– Tseni Ant-kinden ambassador
Laszlo
– Fly-kinden factor of the
Tidenfree
crew
Lej (‘Spillage’)
– Greatclaw Onychoi engineer, of Wys’s crew
Lerean
– Dart-kinden Kerebroi wanderer
Lineo Thadspar
– Beetle-kinden, former speaker for the Assembly – died during the war
Lyess
– Medusoi Pelagist
Malius
– Vekken Ant-kinden ambassador
Mandir
– Smallclaw Onychoi, the Man of the Hot Stations
Marcantor
– Dart-kinden Kerebroi in Aradocles’ service
Marteus
– Ant-kinden chief officer of the Coldstone Company
Maxel Gainer
– Beetle-kinden artificer, Tseitus’s apprentice
Menes
– Krakind Kerebroi assassin in Claeon’s service
Nemoctes
– Wayfarer-kinden Kerebroi, leader of the Pelagists
Ordly Penhold
– Beetle-kinden merchant
Paladrya
– Krakind Kerebroi tutor to Aradocles
Partreyn
– Beetle-kinden deputy speaker of the Assembly
Pellectes
– Krakind Kerebroi, leader of the Littoralists
Phylles
– Polypoi member of Wys’s crew
Piera
– Fly-kinden of the
Tidenfree
crew
Plius
– Tseni Ant-kinden agent, died during the war
Praeda Rakespear
– Beetle-kinden academic
Pserry
– Gribbern’s beast
Rones Failwright
– Beetle-kinden Assembler, shipping magnate
Rosander
– Greatclaw Onychoi, Nauarch of the Thousand Spines train
Salme Dien (‘Salma’)
– Dragonfly-kinden noble, died during the war
Santiren
– Dart-kinden Kerebroi in the service of Aradocles
Sfayot
– Roach-kinden chancellor of Princep Salmae
Stenwold Maker
– Beetle-kinden spymaster and statesman
Teornis of the Aldanrael
– Spider-kinden Aristoi
Termes
– Vekken Ant-kinden ambassador
Thalric
– Wasp-kinden former Rekef agent and Regent
Theomen
– Krakind Kerebroi assassin in Claeon’s service
Three-City Alliance
– Myna, Szar and Maynes; cities formerly under the control of the Empire
Tisamon
– Mantis-kinden Weaponsmaster, died during the war
Tolly Aimark
– Beetle-kinden ship’s master
Tomasso
– Fly-kinden master of the
Tidenfree
Tseitus
– Tseni Ant-kinden artificer
Tynisa
– halfbreed Weaponsmaster, daughter of Tisamon
Tyresia
– Spider-kinden information broker
Varante
– Dragonfly-kinden leader of Teornis’s cadre
Wys
– Smallclaw Onychoi mercenary
Places
Arvandine
– trading post at the edge of the Felyal
Capitas
– capital of the Empire
Collegium
– Beetle city, heart of the Lowlands
Deep Seep
– sea-kinden colony
Everis
– Spider-kinden island city
Felyal
– Mantis-kinden forest, now mostly burned
Grand Atoll
– sea-kinden colony off Tsen
Helleron
– Beetle-kinden industrial city
Hermatyre
– sea-kinden colony
The Hot Stations
– sea-kinden industrial colony
Kanateris
– Spider-kinden pirate town
Khanaphes
– ancient Beetle-kinden city
Merro
– Fly-kinden town
Princep Salmae
– city newly founded by war refugees
Sarn
– Ant-kinden city allied with Collegium
Seldis
– Spider-kinden city
Siennis
– Spider-kinden city
Sonn
– Beetle-kinden city in the Empire
Tark
– Ant-kinden city, devastated during the war
Tsen
– Ant-kinden city on the far west coast of the Lowlands
Vek
– Ant-kinden city recently at war with Collegium
Organizations and things
Amphiophos
– the seat of Collegiate government
Assembly
– the governing body of Collegium, elected by Lots
Benthist
– a member of a nomadic sea-kinden group
Coldstone Company
– a Collegium merchant company
Edmir
– the governor of a sea-kinden colony
Isseleema’s Floating Game
– a floating gaming house
Lots
– the election of Collegiate Assemblers
Maker’s Own
– a Collegium merchant company
Migrating Home
– Jaclen Courser’s merchant ship
Nauarch
– the leader of a Benthist train
Obligist
– a sea-kinden living in a colony
Outwright’s Pike and Shot
– a Collegium merchant company
Pelagist
– a sea-kinden that leads a solitary, travelling life
Pelter
– Tolly Aimark’s ship
Rekef
– the Imperial secret service
Speaker
– the leader of the Collegiate Assembly
Storm Locust
– Ebris of the Ganbrodiel’s ship
Thousand Spines Train
– Rosander’s followers
Tidenfree
– Tomasso’s ship
Tseitan
– Maxel Gainer’s submersible
Very Blade
– pirate vessel
Windlass
– Jons Allanbridge’s airship
Praise for Shadows of the Apt
‘The insectile-humans premise is inventive, shaping the world in all sorts of ways’
SFX
‘Adrian Tchaikovsky makes a good and enjoyable mix between a medieval looking world and the presence of technology . . . I really enjoyed the novel and with certainty I will read the next novels of the series’
DarkWolfsFantasyReviews.blogspot.com
‘
Salute the Dark
impressed me no end . . . Mr Tchaikovsky showed he mastered the art of managing an epic almost to perfection . . .
Salute the Dark
fulfils the promise of the Apt series and brings its first part to an excellent conclusion, while starting new threads to be explored next. An A++ based on my three reads of the book so far and vaulting to the top of my 2010 fantasy novels’
FantasyBookCritic.blogspot.com
‘In recent years Tor, in the UK at least, have developed something of a reputation for publishing more serious, innovative fantasy. China Miéville has been around for a while, but new, exciting authors have emerged from the Tor stable: Alan Campbell, Hal Duncan, Adrian Tchaikovsky. Something all these authors have in common is that they’ve delivered novels that deviate from the norm, that are a cut above much of the bubblegum fantasy being peddled around at the minute. Their novels actually try to do something a little different’
SpeculativeHorizons.blogspot.com
‘A novel brimming with imagination and execution . . . The Shadows of the Apt series is quite distinct, mainly due to the insect-kinden and Tchaikovsky’s fertile imagination. His writing is accessible, if dense, while the sheer amount of extra content he has published on the web with regards to his series adds nuanced flavour to the proceedings’
SciFiNow
‘With all the groundwork laid so well in book one, book two leaps straight into the action and rarely lets-up for the entire of its almost 700 page length, and while the scale of book one was big, the story has now become nothing less than epic . . . Reminiscent of much that’s gone before from the likes of Gemmel, Erikson, Sanderson and Cook but with its own unique and clever touch, this is another terrific outing from Mr Tchaikovsky and a worthy sequel in this epic saga’
Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire before heading off to Reading to study psychology and zoology. For reasons unclear even to himself he subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives. Married, he is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor, has trained in stage-fighting, and keeps no exotic or dangerous pets of any kind, possibly excepting his son.
Catch up with Adrian at
www.shadowsoftheapt.com
for further information about both himself and the insect-kinden, together with bonus material including short stories and artwork.
The Sea Watch
is the sixth novel in the Shadows of the Apt series. Have you read
Empire in Black and Gold
,
Dragonfly Falling
,
Blood of the Mantis
,
Salute the Dark
and
The Scarab Path
?
ALSO BY ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY
Shadows of the Apt
Empire in Black and Gold
Dragonfly Falling
Blood of the Mantis