Alien Clay
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Narrated by:
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Ben Allen
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Written by:
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Adrian Tchaikovsky
About this listen
Alien Clay is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.
This audiobook edition includes an exclusive interview between Ben Allen and 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 . . .
‘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
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- Jonathan Alexiou
- 2024-04-23
More Legendary Sci-fi from Adrian
This book is just amazing science fiction story telling and is a must read for fans of Adrian's other works.
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- pigletbunny
- 2025-01-04
Slogging through the first 6 hrs is torture
I tried. I really tried. Audible's synopsis made this book sound really interesting. However, I had to slog through the first 6+ hours before the writing style and content stopped putting me to sleep. At 6 hours and 42 minutes, I gave up. Life is too short to keep reading ;-P (N.B. The first bunch of Dune requires stamina from the reader, but then the book becomes VERY interesting and exciting :-) Dune = worth slogging through the first part; Alien Clay = NOT worth the effort.
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- Daniel
- 2024-11-06
Repetitive and Tedious
Usually a huge fan of this author so I purchased this book as soon as I heard about. Unfortunately, this book is … rough.
The main character’s first person narrative is just a repetition of the same seven sentiments over and over and over and over. “The mandate is bad” “Trust is hard” “I like quality silence” “what is this biology” “We are hopeless” “Maybe we can trust”
repeat and repeat and repeat
The biology mystery is painfully obvious so there’s not even that to look forward to unraveling.
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