Shroud

Thrilling, terrifying and fascinatingTim 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 to a distant star system discovers a pitch-black moon alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is deadly to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud. Under no circumstances can a human survive Shrouds inhospitable surface but a catastrophic accident forces Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne to make an emergency landing in a barely adequate escape vehicle. Alone, and fighting for survival, the two women embark on a gruelling journey across land, sea and air in search of salvation. But as they travel, Juna and Mai begin to understand Shrouds unnerving alien species. It also begins to understand them. If they escape Shroud, theyll somehow have to explain the impossible and translate the incredible. That is, if they make it back at all . . . * * * Praise for Shroud Clever, vivid and terrifying . . . No one has an imagination like Adrian Tchaikovsky Jim Al-Khalili, presenter of BBC Radio 4s The Life Scientific Crunchy, conceptual SF at its best Richard Morgan, author of Altered Carbon This is hard-edged science fiction that never loses its soul Sue Burke, author of Semiosis