Ogres

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Overview

Ogres are bigger than you.
Ogres are stronger than you.
Ogres rule the world.

It’s always idyllic in the village until the landlord comes to call.

Because the landlord is an Ogre. And Ogres rule the world, with their size and strength and appetites. It’s always been that way. It’s the natural order of the world. And they only eat people sometimes.

But when the headman’s son, Torquell, dares lift his hand against the landlord’s son, he sets himself on a path to learn the terrible truth about the Ogres, and about the dark sciences that ensured their rule.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786185303
Publisher:	Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	03/15/2022
Series:	Terrible Worlds: Revolutions , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	500,950
File size:	470 KB

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.

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.

Editorial Reviews

11/15/2021

Tchaikovsky (Elder Race) takes a sharp look in this twisty social satire at a world in which, due to genetic modification, the 1%, now called ogres, literally tower over the 99%. At over six feet tall, Torquell, mischievous human son of a village headman, stands above his fellow non-ogres both in height and temper, which leads to trouble with 10-foot-tall ogre and village master Sir Peter and his son, Gerald, a lout given to taunting the diminutive lower class. Turned fugitive, Torquell flees his depopulated village and explores the wider world, which is ruled by ogres and filled with teeming urban slums and churned-up battlefields for mock wars that inflict real wounds. Eventually adopted by the inquisitive ogre Lady Isadora, Torquell learns of the ecological crises that took the world from humans and gave it to the ogres, a situation he resolves to reverse. Tchaikovsky’s second-person narration neatly reveals his protagonist while masking just how his destiny will play out. Readers with a bent for social commentary and solving puzzles will be doubly pleased. Agent: Simon Kavanagh, Mic Cheetham Agency. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

"Ironclads dramatises the conflicts between rich and poor, right and left, public and private in a brutally satirical fashion. At the same time, it’s an enormously entertaining story." — SFcrowsnest on Ironclads

SFcrowsnest

Tchaikovsky knocks it out the park... a gripping, sardonic story that sticks the landing perfectly.” – Locus

“Tchaikovsky plays with the readers expectations, plucking at the strings of intrigue and thrusting out familiar allusions to lull us into a false sense of security... This novel can easily stand proud with dystopian novels such as Orwell’s 1984 or Margaret Atwood’s dystopian Maddaddam Trilogy.” — Fantasy Hive

“Classic Tchaikovsky with its interwoven complex themes, but also departs from his previous works into something more naturally dark and raw.” – Grimdark Magazine

From the Publisher

"Every chapter throws fresh surprises at the reader, continually opening out the scope of the novel, and the imagery is wonderfully vivid throughout... Tchaikovsky focuses the taut story in such a way that every detail is relevant, building towards a climax that doesn’t feel possible at the beginning but which, by the end, feels like a perfect pay-off." — SFX Magazine on Firewalkers

SFX Magazine

"This is superior stuff, tackling big themes - gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness - with brio." — Financial Times

Financial Times

"A grim picture of a possible future, a diverse cast of interesting and distinct characters, a dollop of mystery and technological shenanigans. There’s some good action, tricksy AI, and a satisfying ending. Recommended." — Civilian Reader on Firewalkers

Civilian Reader

"The wars of Tchaikovsky’s future are brutal, inhuman, and strangely awe-inspiring in their horror." — Liz Bourke, Locus Magazine on Ironclads

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"Brilliant science fiction and far out world building" — James McAvoy on Children of Time

James McAvoy

"A masterclass in concise storytelling." — ScFiNow on Firewalkers

SciFiNow

"A smart, sharp look at warfare in a near future that may not be, but feels like a funhouse mirror on our present." — Nerds of a Feather, Flock Together on Ironclads

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