Book description
'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…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Shroud as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Adrian Tchaikovsky writes a variety of fiction, but I particularly adore his hard science fiction. Shroud is a great example from this year. He describes intelligent life in place you'd never expect life of any kind to exist (akin to the science fiction classic, Dragon's Egg by Robert Forward). The characters and dialog are terrific. The situations are extreme, plausible, and exciting. I loved it!
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