Alien Clay

<p><b><i>Alien Clay</i> is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.</b><br><br><b>They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . </b><br><br>On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It&rsquo;s the greatest discovery in humanity&rsquo;s spacefaring history &ndash; yet who were its builders and where did they go?<br><br>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&rsquo;s extrasolar labour camp. There, he&rsquo;s condemned to work under an alien sky until he dies.<br><br>Kiln boasts a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem like nothing seen on Earth. The monstrous alien life interacts in surprising, sometimes shocking ways with the human bod