"Alien Clay" - "" ("Tchaikovsky Adrian")(Paperback / softback)

"From Arthur C. Clarke and Hugo Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky comes his most ambitious sci-fi novel yet--Alien Clay is a thrilling far-future adventure filled with exotic ecologies and mysterious ancient civilizations that explores the permeable boundaries between human and alien. The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival he discovers that Kiln has a secret. Humanity is not the first intelligent life to set foot there. In the midst a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem are the ruins of a civilization, but who were the vanished builders and where did they go? If he can survive both the harsh rule of the camp commandant and the alien horrors of the world around him,
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