Alien Clay

<p><b><i>Alien Clay</i> is a thrilling tale of first contact and those who are irrevocably changed by what they encounter &ndash; from the acclaimed Arthur C. Clarke Award-winner Adrian Tchaikovsky.<br><br>&lsquo;Unputdownable&rsquo; &ndash; Stephen Baxter, author of <i>Proxima</i><br><br>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? Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close, but his wishes become a reality in the worst possible way. His political activism sees him exiled from Earth to a penal colony &ndash; based on Kiln. There, he&rsquo;s condemned to work under an alien sky until he dies.<br><br>Kiln boa