_'Thrilling, terrifying and fascinating' ~ Tim Peake, British Esa Astronaut_
Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky joins us for his new book _Shroud_, an utterly gripping story of survival and first contact on a hostile planet.
Adrian is the renown author of critically acclaimed books including _Children of Time, _which won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, and _Children of Ruin_ and _Shards of Earth_ which both won the British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel. _The Tiger and the Wolf_ won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel, while _And Put Away Childish Things_ won the BSFA Award for Best Shorter Fiction.
_THEY LOOKED INTO DARKNESS. THE DARKNESS LOOKED BACK . . ._
_A commercial expedition to a distant star system discovers a pitch-black moon alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is deadly to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud._
_Under no circumstances can a human survive Shroud's inhospitable surface - but a catastrophic accident forces Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne to make an emergency landing in a barely adequate escape vehicle. Alone, and fighting for survival, the two women embark on a gruelling journey across land, sea and air in search of salvation._
_But as they travel, Juna and Mai begin to understand Shroud's unnerving alien species. It also begins to understand them. If they escape Shroud, they'll somehow have to explain the impossible and translate the incredible. That is, if they make it back at all . . ._