Days of Shattered Faith by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Days of Shattered Faith

Shortlisted for the Hugo Award for Best Series 2025

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Bloomsbury USA · Print & ebook · November 18, 2025

Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, inheritor to the necromantic dominion that was the Moeribandi Empire and tomorrow's frontline in the Palleseen's relentless march to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world.

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Genres
Epic Fantasy, Dark Fantasy, Dystopian
Published
Bloomsbury USA, November 18, 2025

About this book

Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, inheritor to the necromantic dominion that was the Moeribandi Empire and tomorrow's frontline in the Palleseen's relentless march to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. Loret is fresh off the boat, and just in time. As Cohort-Invigilator of Correct Appreciation, Outreach department, she's here as aide to the Palleseen Resident, Sage-Invigilator Angilly.

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And Sage-Invigilator Angilly – Gil to her friends – needs a second in the spectacularly illegal, culturally offensive and diplomatically inadvisable duel she must fight at midnight. Outreach, that part of the Pal machine that has to work within the imperfection of the rest of the world, has a lot of room for the illegal, the unconventional, the unorthodox. But just how much unorthodoxy can Gil and Loret get away with? As a succession crisis looms, as a long-forgotten feat of necromantic engineering nears fruition, as pirate kings, lizard armies and demons gather, as old gods wane and new gods wax, sooner or later Gil and Loret will have to settle their ledger. Just as well they are both very, very good with a blade… Also in the TYRANT PHILOSOPHERS series: CITY OF LAST CHANCES HOUSE OF OPEN WOUNDS LIVES OF BITTER RAIN DAYS OF SHATTERED FAITH PRETENDERS TO THE THONE OF GOD

Series Spotlight

Come here for

  • A Hugo-shortlisted series entry
  • Dark fantasy politics, with momentum

Expect

  • Military-fantasy scale
  • Fantasy-adventure pacing

Where it sits

Epic Fantasy72%
Dark Fantasy61%
Dystopian45%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Epic Fantasy
  • Fantasy Adventure
  • Military Fantasy
Authors
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Published
November 18, 2025
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Epic Fantasy