{"product_id":"9781035013807-shroud","title":"Shroud","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfter two scientists crash on a hostile moon, they must use every tool at their disposal to survive. A tense, atmospheric voyage into the unknown from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of \u003ci\u003eChildren of Time\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn utterly gripping story of alien encounter and survival from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning \u003ci\u003eChildren of Time\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThey looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnder 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 .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf they escape Shroud, they’ll face a crew only interested in profiteering from this extraordinary world. They’ll somehow have to explain the impossible and translate the incredible. That is, if they make it back at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Adrian Tchaikovsky\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘The smartest evolutionary worldbuilding you’ll ever read’ – Peter F. Hamilton, author of \u003ci\u003eSalvation \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003eChildren of Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Compelling on human and cosmic levels, and unputdownable’ – Stephen Baxter, author of \u003ci\u003eProxima \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003eAlien Clay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Heart-in-the-mouth fantastic’ – \u003ci\u003eNew Scientist \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003eAlien Clay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41695542050913,"sku":"9781035013807","price":14.83,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_25018104.jpg?v=1718823831","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781035013807-shroud","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}