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Pan Macmillan's Tor imprint has signed a science fiction epic by Shadows of the Apt fantasy author Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Senior commissioning editor Bella Pagan bought world rights to the novel from Simon Kavanagh of the Mic Cheetham Agency.
Pagan described the book as "utterly compulsive, powerfully ambitious and a palpable sense of menace and danger informs the urgent writing throughout."
Titled Portia's Children, the novel tells the story of a desperate quest to preserve the last remnants of humanity. It describes a future where humans once travelled the stars, before coming back to earth. Now, people are fleeing a dying planet one last time, following ancient star maps and searching for a new home.
Tchaikovsky has had nine of his Shadows of the Apt fantasy novels published by Tor UK. This is his first science fiction novel.
Tor plans to release Portia's Children in summer 2015, in between Tchaikovsky's forthcoming fantasy titles.