Shroud
By Adrian Tchaikovsky

LOOK INSIDEISBN:and 9781035013807Format:and Trade PaperbackPub Date:and 25/02/2025Category:and Science Fiction, FICTION / Science Fiction / Alien ContactImprint:and Tor UKPrice:and $34.99Pages:and 448They looked into darkness. The darkness looked back . . .An utterly gripping story of survival on a hostile planet from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winningand Children of Time.A commercial expedition to a distant star system discovers a pitch-black moon alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is deadly to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud.Under no circumstances can a human survive Shroud's inhospitable surface - but a catastrophic accident forces Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne to make an emergency landing in a barely adequate escape vehicle. Alone, and fighting for survival, the two women embark on a gruelling journey across land, sea and air in search of salvation.But as they travel, Juna and Mai begin to understand Shroud's unnerving alien species. It also begins to understand them. If they escape Shroud, they'll somehow have to explain the impossible and translate the incredible. That is, if they make it back at all . . .Praise for Adrian Tchaikovsky The smartest evolutionary worldbuilding you'll ever read' - Peter F. Hamilton, author ofand Salvationand onand Children of Time Compelling on human and cosmic levels, and unputdownable' - Stephen Baxter, author ofand Proximaand onand Alien Clay Heart-in-the-mouth fantastic' -and New Scientistand onand Alien ClayAuthor InformationAdrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, has practised law and now writes full time. He's also studied stage-fighting, perpetrated amateur dramatics and has a keen interest in entomology and table-top games.Adrian is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series and other novels, novellas and short stories.and Children of Timeand won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, andand Children of Ruinand andand Shards of Earthand both won the British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel.and The Tiger and the Wolfand won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel, whileand And Put Away Childish Thingsand won the BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction.