Synopsis
‘Thrilling, terrifying and fascinating’
Tim Peake, British ESA astronaut
They looked into darkness. The darkness looked back . . .
An utterly gripping story of survival and first contact on a hostile planet from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Children of Time.
A commercial expedition to a distant star system discovers a pitch-black moon alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity,...
Details
27 February 2025448 pages
9781035013791Imprint: Tor
Reviews
Thrilling, terrifying and fascinating in equal measure. A gripping story of survival and human endeavour against all odds. The most thought-provoking book I've read in a long timeTim Peake, British ESA astronaut
Crunchy, conceptual SF at its best . . . the best alien contact novel I've read since Peter Watts' Blindsight, and that is high praise indeedRichard Morgan, author of Altered Carbon
Clever, vivid and terrifying. Shroud is probably the most alien world anyone could possibly imagine. But no one has an imagination like Adrian Tchaikovsky Jim Al-Khalili, presenter of BBC Radio 4's The Life Scientific
The most inventive alien world I've ever encountered in SF . . . Pure Tchaikovsky. I swear the man is some kind of geniusPeter Watts, author of Blindsight
