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Alien Clay

An incredible science fiction tale of first contact with the unknown, shortlisted for Best Novel at the 2025 Hugo Awards

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Alien Clay

Von: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Gesprochen von: Ben Allen
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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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&lsquo;This is what it's like to be sentenced to Transportation in a fictional futuristic world . . .<b> The regularity with which Tchaikovsky delivers great books is astounding. Highly recommended</b> (Tade Thompson, author of Rosewater)
<i>Alien Clay</i> is convincing, compelling on human and cosmic levels, and<b> unputdownable. With work like this, Adrian Tchaikovsky is fast becoming the voice of his generation in British SF</b> (Stephen Baxter, author of Proxima)
<b>One of our finest writers of SF right now . . . </b>an excellent story told with Adrian's trademark skill and flair (James Oswald, author of the Inspector McLean series)
A hell prison on a hell planet with a thrilling, important message: only connect. Adrian's firing on all cylinders in this one (Ian McDonald, author of New Moon)
<b>Is Tchaikovsky propping up the science fiction industry single-handedly?</b> He is so prolific and reliably excellent that I think he might be
Restlessly brainy and<b> utterly involving</b>, <b><i>Alien Clay</i> is as morally engaged as <i>1984 </i>and as immersive as <i>Avatar</i></b>
[Adrian Tchaikovsky] has created <b>a wonderfully strange new world</b> as the basis for an intriguing puzzle with plenty of thrills
<b>Imaginative, horrifying and always amusing</b>, it's the perfect gateway into what makes Tchaikovsky great.
<b>[A] brilliant, gripping standalone novel</b>, which reconstitutes numerous familiar SF tropes to create something thought-provoking, unexpected and at times unsettlingly weird
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A.T. is an innovative writer when it comes to speculating what other forms a sentient being can come in. What is intelligence can it emerge without sentience, like an pheromone driven computational ant colony, or a pair of ravens, they are coming always in pairs, and denying being sentient even though perfectly understanding the question. In this book it's something else entirely. And yes, the settings are dark and brutal, not unusual for A.T. to pour his ideas into a dystopian form.

what is sentience? Yet another brilliant deep dive into the question

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I gave the book back after several hours of listening. It felt like an AI-written book based on Tchaikovsky's other books. It was kind of an amalgamation of some books but without the action. The language was very nice and advanced, but the story was very repetitive. Tchaikovsky used to paint the story and describe the personas on the fly while the plot changed and an interesting universe was painted, but he did not manage it this time.

The least interesting of otherwise fantastic books

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this is out of the park, it draws you in really fast and keeps you engaged right until the end.

A nice fresh sci-fi perspective

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Professor Arton Daghdev is a xenobiologist who gets exiled to a research/prison colony on the Planet of Kiln because he didn´t comform with the antropocentric teachings of the dogmatic sience-technocracy of the opressive Earth Mandate. Back on Earth he and many other scientists alligned with a resistance. On Kiln many of those revolutionaries find themselves as prisoners, serving the Mandate of Earth to uncover the secrets of Kiln life and its mysterious ruins.
Step by step they uncover the complexeties of the symbiotic Kiln life forms and the potential dangers of beiing exposed to it.
What evolves is an interesting conflict between revolutionaries vs the Mandate and individualism vs the collective.

An interesting and highly contradictory scifi-tale

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Eine relativ lineare Geschichte, ausschweifend erzählt. Mein Englisch Wortschatz hat sich erweitert. Der Ich-Erzähler wirkt glaubwürdig vielschichtig. Insgesamt kein notwendiges Buch für SciFi Afficionados oder Liebhaber politischer Literatur.

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I really like the setting of the book. You get a feeling for the desperation of living under an oppressive regime. As always, Adrian Tchaikovsky does a great job at world building which to me is the most essential part of Science Fiction.

Excellent setting

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The author clearly had done some research into the scientific concepts he is touching on. As a scientist I appreciate this tremendously while simultaneously wishing for more in depth descriptions of the world in this regard. One has to realize though that the wider audience may not appreciate this as much as I do.
Besides this, the book uses the medium of science fiction to its fullest, contemplating concepts of great relevance by asking ‘what if’.

Great book with really interesting ideas.

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A lot of world description as well as very detailed thoughts on how life of the world works. Unfortunately over that the story is very slow and gets lost under exposition sometimes. Still an enjoyavle story.

Not his best work-still great

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Once again, a super exciting new concept of extraterrestrial life! As you'd expect from Adrian Tchaikovsky <3 The narrator was also great.

Astrobiology at its finest

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I found myself quite bored by the slow narration and rambling wordiness of the protagonist. I wanted to know more about the setting, the planet and the science, but it was all spun out so needlessly slow I am debating switching to something else that is more engaging.

Slow and ponderous narration detracts from the interesting planet

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