What could be lurking on the floor of the weird moon Shroud?
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Shroud
Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor)
The newest novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Shroud, examines the query of whether or not, confronted with an alien intelligence, we’d really understand it as clever. That and whether or not the aliens would recognise us as something above pond life.
The setting is the far future and a foray by a business vessel into a brand new star system. The ship’s tradition is merciless, petty and extremely company – that’s, fully recognisable to people alive in the present day. The crew are unfrozen, used as wanted, then summarily refrozen.…
