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Alien Clay

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Narrated by: Ben Allen
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Alien Clay is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.

They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . .

On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they go?

Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close. Then his wishes become a reality in the worst way. His political activism sees him exiled from Earth to Kiln’s extrasolar labour camp. There, he’s condemned to work under an alien sky until he dies.

Kiln boasts a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem like nothing seen on Earth. The monstrous alien life interacts in surprising, sometimes shocking ways with the human body, so Arton will risk death on a daily basis. However, the camp’s oppressive regime might just kill him first. If Arton can somehow escape both fates, the world of Kiln holds a wondrous, terrible secret. It will redefine life and intelligence as he knows it, and might just set him free . . .

This audiobook edition includes an exclusive interview between Ben Allen and Adrian Tchaikovsky.

‘A warning for a future we don’t want . . . Highly recommended’ – Tade Thompson

‘Unputdownable. Adrian Tchaikovsky is fast becoming the voice of his generation in British SF’ – Stephen Baxter

‘One of our finest writers of SF right now . . . an excellent story told with Adrian's trademark skill and flair’ – James Oswald

©2024 Adrian Tchaikovsky (P)2024 Macmillan Publishers International Limited

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So juicy. Brain says nom

AT has been one of my favourite authors for years now. I have thoroughly enjoyed most of his books but not loved them all. At first I thought this would be a simple mix of ideas he's explored before, in e.g. cage of souls and the children of time series. However it turned out to have many delights all of its own. I was completely drawn in by the idea of Kiln ecology and the wonderful prose (I think he's particularly good at the narrator monologue) and settled in for a slightly old fashioned sci fi adventure that soothed my frustratingly itchy brain for many hours. Kudos to the performance which didn't try to do too much with it, but the pitch perfect delivery let the story shine. Lovely voice to listen to

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