560 pages
English language
Published Feb. 27, 2025 by Tor.
In a dystopian future run by corporate productivity metrics, two women experience a catastrophe and land on Shroud.
Shroud is completely dark and full of life that lives by shouting constantly across every audio and radio spectrum. The world is full of loud danger and the women have almost nothing to get back to their dystopian ship. And then something notices them.
Survival horror in space. Very very well done.
I devoured Shroud. This is Adrian Tchaikovsky at his scifi best - truly alien aliens and humans being humans, engrossing drama ensues.
I devoured Shroud. This is Adrian Tchaikovsky at his scifi best - truly alien aliens and humans being humans, engrossing drama ensues.
In Shroud, Tchaikovsky imagines evolution on a world where visible light is not available.
As a legally blind person I'm both disappointed and glad that this novel is not about blindness. I would have liked to see Tchaikovsky describe the challenges of dealing with blindness, but wouldn't have liked to see him fail at it, like too many other sighted authors.
This is a first contact story. Quite uniquely, establishing communication isn't the first priority.
It contrasts a human capitalist strip mining project with an alien intelligence that has it's own history, constraints and priorities.
But first of all, it is a trek across a dangerous alien environment and survival against the odds.
In Shroud, Tchaikovsky imagines evolution on a world where visible light is not available.
As a legally blind person I'm both disappointed and glad that this novel is not about blindness. I would have liked to see Tchaikovsky describe the challenges of dealing with blindness, but wouldn't have liked to see him fail at it, like too many other sighted authors.
This is a first contact story. Quite uniquely, establishing communication isn't the first priority.
It contrasts a human capitalist strip mining project with an alien intelligence that has it's own history, constraints and priorities.
But first of all, it is a trek across a dangerous alien environment and survival against the odds.
