Alien Clay
Book description
Alien Clay is a thrilling far-future adventure by acclaimed Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky.
'Unputdownable' - Stephen Baxter, author of Proxima
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . .
Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study alien life in person. But when his…
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On the future Earth of Alien Clay, society is in the grip of a bunch of ideological zealots that would give the Spanish Inquisition a run for their money. The ‘Mandate’ insists on a scientific orthodoxy that stifles true scientific thinking and enforces its worldview with a jackbooted fervour that tolerates no alternatives. Those who dare to dabble in ‘free thinking’ are captured, interrogated and squeezed until they give up their comrades before being exiled to a prison colony on some far-off world.
Such is the fate of Anton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident, who finds himself cast out to…
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