Adrian Tchaikovsky for Shroud

'Clever, vivid and terrifying . . . No one has an imagination like Adrian Tchaikovsky.'

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 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 . . .