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Shroud
Shroud | Adrian Tchaikovsky
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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 . . .
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sebrittainclark
Shroud | Adrian Tchaikovsky
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This sci-fi horror is set an a planet covered in complete darkness with radio signals screamingly loud. Two humans find themselves stranded on the planet in a dire situation as they learn about the planet, and the planet learns about them.

An atmospheric #Hauntedshelf rec

#screamteam @imperfectcj

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Ddzmini
Shroud | Adrian Tchaikovsky
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What … what … does this mean there‘s going to be another book or series… I need to know … the way this is written is addictive and I need to know if there‘s another book coming out or is out now … I‘m so glad I have more books by this author

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sebrittainclark
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Ceelander and Ste Etienne are forced to land on Shroud, a planet where the atmosphere is so think that no light makes it to the planets surface and life evolved to “see“ through ever louder radio waves. Escape is all but impossible, and they've attracted the attention of Shroud's many forms of life.

I couldn't put this book down. I loved everything about the journey across Shroud as well as the alien life that lives on Shroud.

#netgalley

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Decalino
Shroud | Adrian Tchaikovsky
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In a distant future, humanity expands outward in an endless quest for resources that can be exploited, and individuals must justify their existence to merit food, oxygen and even consciousness. When an accident sends Juna and Mai to the surface of a wildly inhospitable moon targeted for resource extraction, they face a hostile environment and first contact with a life form unlike anything humanity has ever encountered. Fascinating.