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Alien Clay
- Narrated by: Ben Allen
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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Summary
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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- luke
- 06-04-24
The filler
This was a pleasant romp, worth the credit mostly.
An interesting premise of political dissidents sent to a far flung life bearing planet. The “intrigue” eventually raise to an interesting point of rather drawn out over the length of the book.
Worthy of a listen if you’re looking….
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- Duncerman
- 29-08-24
Good idea but not alot happens.
I love the children of time series but I'm struggling to get to those heights with the author's other books. The idea is interesting but not a lot happens and i found it very slow.
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- Youssii
- 17-04-24
The most imaginative alien biology in modern science fiction
Adrian Tchaikovsky always delivers incredible biology but really outdid himself with this one, creating a whole alien ecology that feels fundamentally different to our own but still feels scientifically grounded.
The protagonist is sarcastic narrates the thoughts and feelings of an exiled academic who failed to be the kind of revolutionary he wanted to be on dictatorship earth.
Perhaps what is most terrifying is not the Elephant's Dad who stampedes through the forest, or the cackling infected researcher who hoots and laughs in the night, but the fact that the human society known as the Mandate feels as though it really could lie in our real world future.
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- JohnW
- 06-04-24
1984 Meets Avatar
Great protagonist, great story. Almost a hypothetical solution fulfilling communism, only solved in fantasy horror.
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- Zero71
- 17-05-24
Nothing Really Happens. I was kinda bored throughout.
I loved some of the authors other books, particularly the Final Architecture series. But I just didn't enjoy this. Too much politics and revolution talk, not enough happening to drive forwards the story. The last 90 mins of the book is the most interesting, but the previous 12 hours was just OK. In summary, it was disappointing.
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- The haunt
- 22-05-24
Another interesting Adrian Tchaikovsky book!
The first 3/4 of the book were excellent and interesting with characters which were fun to listen to and a developing story.
However, later I found thr story and key developments in it weren't explained amazingly and felt like they clashed with earlier points a little bit.
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- c meddings
- 04-06-24
Excellent
Back to hard sci-fi for Tchaikovsky. He is always strongest when he is deriving deep into new ideas about alien life and how it could affect the humans that find it
This is up there with the children of time series as his best work
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- Andrew
- 18-07-24
Interesting theme
I found the story harder to engage with than other Tchaikovsky novels I have listened too recently. That said the writing is excellent and the concepts unusual and thought provoking. Quite a lot of thinking behind things from a scientific and a political perspective.
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- tfdodo
- 08-09-24
imaginative take on an established plot
Pace was OK, plot interesting, characters engaging enough. almost always wanted to pick it up again to see what happened next ! Some good themes and a credible universe underpinning it.
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- Nat
- 12-05-24
Interesting life on this planet
Totally absorbed into this alien world - fascinating concept with political themes to boot. For me it was a little of Journey to the centre of the Earth meets 1984! Only in space! Loved it! Would read it again.
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