ALIEN CLAY
A View To A Kiln
★★★★★ RELEASED 28 MARCH 400 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Adrian Tchaikovsky Publisher Tor Books
A major theme of Alien Clay is extraterrestrial evolution reshaping the familiar building blocks of life into something strange and new. The same could be said of this brilliant, gripping standalone novel, which reconstitutes numerous familiar SF tropes to create something thought-provoking, unexpected and at times unsettlingly weird.
In a distant future, academic turned dissident Arton Daghdev is sentenced to a one-way trip to Imno 27g (known colloquially as Kiln) by a totalitarian Earth government doing its best to stamp out free speech and “heterodox” thinking.