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Narrated by:
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Sophie Aldred
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Written by:
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Adrian Tchaikovsky
About this listen
Read by Sophie Aldred (Doctor Who).
‘Thrilling, terrifying and fascinating’
Tim Peake, British ESA astronaut
They looked into darkness. The darkness looked back . . .
An utterly gripping story of survival and first contact on a hostile planet from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning 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 . . .
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Praise for Shroud
‘Clever, vivid and terrifying . . . No one has an imagination like Adrian Tchaikovsky’ – Jim Al-Khalili, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific
‘Crunchy, conceptual SF at its best’ – Richard Morgan, author of Altered Carbon
‘This is hard-edged science fiction that never loses its soul’ – Sue Burke, author of Semiosis
‘Makes Andy Weir's vision of Mars in The Martian look like a Caribbean beach resort’ – The Fantasy Hive
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- Anonymous User
- 2025-04-02
I don't normally like open-ended books
The only things I didn't like were the altered "voices" for the other characters, and that the ending was left up to interpretation; there's enough that you can figure out what probably happened but not enough to know for sure. Definitely leaves you thinking about the possibilities!
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- Rahul
- 2025-05-01
Stellar - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Masterpiece - had moments were ai was frustrated by how the story was going and kept making me screamimg at Sophie (and Joona). But it was all resolved at the end. well, almost everything except the open ending. I can have hours of conversation with someone just to chat about the epilogue of that epilogue.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2025-03-11
Another masterful tale from one of my favorite authors.
So good I'm starting it again immediately. Has a lot of similarities to his Children of Time series in terms of themes and the concepts explored. Nobody has challenged my anthropocentric views and perspectives as much as Mr. Tchaikovsky. This book is also a deep consideration of what it means to be human as well as what it means to be Other. The narrator's performace was also wonderful and heartfelt.
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