Shroud

After 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 Children of Time .

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 time

Crunchy, conceptual SF at its best . . . the best alien contact novel I've read since Peter Watts' Blindsight , and that is high praise indeed

Clever, vivid and terrifying. Shroud is probably the most alien world anyone could possibly imagine. But no one has an imagination like Adrian Tchaikovsky

The most inventive alien world I've ever encountered in SF . . . Pure Tchaikovsky. I swear the man is some kind of genius

Adrian Tchaikovsky explores worlds where no one else would dare to go, and the unimaginable becomes believable . . . This is hard-edged science fiction that never loses its soul

A terrifically gripping story of survival and First Contact on a pitch-black death world . . . Bravo!

Makes Andy Weir's vision of Mars in The Martian look like a Caribbean beach resort

This is one of the best books I've read this year . . . I can't remember the last time I was this impressed – or moved – by a sci-fi book

There's so much I want to express but I'm speechless . . . That Adrian Tchaikovsky can spin another sci-fi tale this detailed and yet so distinct is mind-blowing

Tchaikovsky is writing at the very peak of his powers and he is fizzing with more interesting ideas than any one human has a right to

Simply put, Shroud is the best first-contact novel I have read in years

A pacy adventure that keeps you thinking

Wonderfully curious . . . an excellent sci-fi

Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, has practised law and now writes full time. He’s also studied stage-fighting, perpetrated amateur dramatics and has a keen interest in entomology and table-top games.

Adrian is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series and other novels, novellas and short stories. Children of Time won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Children of Ruin and Shards of Earth 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.