Name: Shroud
SKU: 64315863
Price: 768.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
ISBN: 9780316579025

Type

Physical Book

Author

Adrian Tchaikovsky

Publisher

Orbit

Language

English

Pages

464

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780316579025

Shroud

Adrian Tchaikovsky (Author) · Orbit · Paperback

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Synopsis "Shroud"

On a planet shrouded in darkness, a stranded crew must fight for survival. But, the darkness may have plans of its own in this wildly original story from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time. They looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back . . . New planets are fair game to asset strippers and interplanetary opportunists - and a commercial mission to a distant star system discovers a moon that is pitch black, but alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is anathema to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud. Under no circumstances should a human end up on Shroud's inhospitable surface. Except a catastrophic accident sees Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne doing just that. Forced to stage an emergency landing, in a small, barely adequate vehicle, they are unable to contact their ship and are running out of time. What follows is a gruelling journey across land, sea and air. During this time, Juna and Mai begin to understand Shroud's dominant species. It also begins to understand them . . .

Adrian Tchaikovsky

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Adrian Tchaikovsky, born Adrian Czajkowski on June 14, 1972 in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, is a British science fiction and fantasy writer. He studied zoology and psychology at the University of Reading and worked as a legal advisor before fully committing to writing. He is known for his series "Shadows of the Apt" and for the novel "Children of Time" (2015), which earned him the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2016.

Other notable works by Tchaikovsky include "Guns of the Dawn" (2016) and "Spiderlight" (2018). His work spans genres such as science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He has been awarded the British Fantasy Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

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