Lives of Bitter Rain: A Tyrant Philosophers Novella by Tchaikovsky, Adrian

Lives of Bitter Rain: A Tyrant Philosophers Novella

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST SERIES 2025City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring 'Perfection'...
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Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Language: English
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Lives of Bitter Rain: A Tyrant Philosophers Novella by Tchaikovsky, Adrian

Lives of Bitter Rain: A Tyrant Philosophers Novella

$24.99

Lives of Bitter Rain: A Tyrant Philosophers Novella

$24.99
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST SERIES 2025

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 bloody-handed priests, evil necromancers and greedy despots that subjugate them.

Angilly, twelve-years-old, a child of Pal soldiers stationed in occupied Jarokir, does not know it yet, but a sequence of accidents and questionable life choices will lead her to Outreach. As she travels from Jarrokir to Bracinta, Cazarkand, Lemas, The Holy Regalate of Stouk and finally, Usmai, she'll learn that the price of her nation's success is paid in compromise and lost chances, and that the falling rain will always be bitter.

LIVES OF BITTER RAIN is a novella in Adrian Tchaikovsky's award-winning Tyrant Philosopher series. It is a prequel to the third novel in the sequence, DAYS OF SHATTERED FAITH.

Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher: Head of Zeus -- An Adastra Book
Published: 10/14/2025
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9781035911448


Award: Hugo Award - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/25/2025

About the Author
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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