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Alien clay / Adrian Tchaikovsky.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
F TCHA	Adult Fiction		Adult Lending	. Available .

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781035013753 (paperback)
Classification	F TCHA
Personal Name	Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972-
Title	Alien clay / Adrian Tchaikovsky.
Production & Copyright Details	London : Tor, 2024.
Production & Copyright Details	©2024
Physical Description	387 pages ; 24 cm
Content type	text
Summary Note	They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind. On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilisation. 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.
Subject - Topical Term	College teachers -- Fiction
	Political activists -- Fiction
	Prisons -- Fiction
	Interplanetary voyages -- Fiction
Subject - Fiction Genre	UK & IRL science fiction
Subject - Genre	Science fiction