MixedAlien Clay is fine. It's just that I hate the main character. He's just so pretentious and I just hate him.
Alien Clay (2024)
Others: Leaning positive On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they go? Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close. Then his wishes become a reality in the worst way. His political activism sees him exiled from Earth to Kiln’s extrasolar labour camp. There, he’s condemned to work under an alien sky until he dies. Kiln boasts a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem like nothing seen on Earth. The monstrous alien life interacts in surprising, sometimes shocking ways with the human body, so Arton will risk death on a daily basis. However, the camp’s oppressive regime might just kill him first. If Arton can somehow escape both fates, the world of Kiln holds a wondrous, terrible secret. It will redefine life and intelligence as he knows it, and might just set him free…
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- 9780316578974
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- 358 pages
Genres: science fiction
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Mixedthis year and it was pretty good it suffered from being read very shortly after cage of Souls which I think is a much better book by him and I felt that it borrowed some elements from that
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