01636cam a2200301 i 4500 1646027025 TxAuBib 20241007120000.0 231221|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023952535 9780316578974 paperback 0316578975 paperback TxAuBib rda Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972-, author. Alien clay / Adrian Tchaikovsky. 432 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates the journey there is always a one-way trip. One such prisoner is Professor Arton Daghdev, xeno-ecologist and political dissident. Soon after arrival he discovers that Kiln has a secret. Humanity is not the first intelligent life to set foot there.In the midst a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem are the ruins of a civilization, but who were the vanished builders and where did they go? If he can survive both the harsh rule of the camp commandant and the alien horrors of the world around him, then Arton has a chance at making a discovery that might just transform not only Kiln but distant Earth as well."-- Provided by publisher. 20241007. EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS Fiction. Human-alien encounters Fiction. Genetic engineering Fiction. Life on other planets Fiction. Space operas (Fiction.) Science fiction. lcgft