This book is a knockout!A commercial mining crew lands on Shroud, a harsh moon shrouded in darkness, with crushing gravity, earmarked as the next resource colony. When disaster strikes, stranding Juna and Mai on the surface, they must traverse its treacherous lands, seas, and skies, facing the planet's dominant alien species. It's a tale of survival and adventure, narrated with Juna's wonderfully sarcastic wit, an alien's unique viewpoint, and a third-person perspective.Sci-Fi at its FinestAdria...

Brilliant ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Adrian Tchaikovsky's *Shroud* is simply brilliant. Five stars, no question. If you're looking for a gripping read, a thought-provoking exploration of identity and power, *Shroud* delivers in spades. A must-read for any sci-fi or fantasy fan. Seriously, just buy *Shroud* already!

4.0 StarsAdrian Tchaikovsky proves once again that he's a prolific author who doesn't sacrifice quality for quantity. *Shroud* strikes a great balance, offering solid science fiction elements alongside a truly engaging plot. It's often tough to find novels that can pull off both.Plot-wise, *Shroud* isn't exactly revolutionary, but it hits all the right narrative notes without feeling stale. I appreciate how Adrian Tchaikovsky introduces familiar science fiction ideas and stories to a new audienc...

Different, even a bit weird. Anyway... I'll need a few years to decide if *Shroud* by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a good kind of weird or a bad kind of weird 🤔. As far as science fiction book reviews go, this one's a head-scratcher!

I’m fascinated by science fiction stories that offer glimpses of alienness that truly diverge from our anthropomorphized “little green men” in a galaxy far, far away, or are just sufficiently puzzling as to be somewhat unknowable. Think of Lem’s *Solaris* with its planetary ocean, Clarke’s *Rendezvous with Rama* with the strange creations of a civilization we never see, and even Watts’s *Blindsight* with its discourse on consciousness. As readers, we observe from the sidelines with our human min...

Utterly and endlessly fascinating, though perhaps a touch dry, leaving something to be desired on the entertainment front. The alternating human and alien viewpoints brilliantly highlight the massive gaps in perspective and understanding between the two, really hammering home the conundrum of two intelligent species barely able to recognize intelligence in each other. This is because their behavior and motivations are so completely alien and incomprehensible. While the story in Shroud may fall a...

I just finished Shroud, the latest Adrian Tchaikovsky sci-fi novel, only a few months after release. But tomorrow, another Tchaikovsky sci-fi novel is coming out that I also want to read, and once again, I'll be behind on his sci-fi output. When I say he writes them faster than I can read them, I truly mean it. And I haven't even seriously delved into his fantasy works yet (my priorities are clear!). The amazing thing is, the books are genuinely good and usually quite different from one another....

Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction often zeroes in on a single, compelling theme: pure curiosity about what's lurking out there in the vast universe. What could alien intelligence, biology, and entire societies actually look like? He's already tackled this question with spiders and octopuses in the Children of Time trilogy, and then with Lego-style symbiotes in *Alien Clay* (still my personal favorite). Now, he's given us *Shroud*, a standalone sci-fi novel tinged with horror, about a moon per...

Adrian Tchaikovsky once again delivers an excellent exploration of the alien, throwing a few unfortunate protagonists onto a hostile and incomprehensible alien world – the planet Shroud – with barely enough resources to survive. Under no circumstances can a human survive Shroud’s inhospitable surface – but a catastrophic accident forces Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne to make an emergency landing in a barely adequate escape vehicle. Alone, and fighting for survival, the two women embark on ...

I'm only giving stars for the last 10 percent of the story... Let me put this into words you can understand... well... sorry, I can't...The crew of the Garveneerr Composite Mission Vessel, a Special Projects team, is on Shroud, a zero-oxygen, high-radiation planet. After an unexpected accident, Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne find themselves in a small, makeshift vehicle, separated from their ship and lacking communication. As they travel through Shroud, they find species...And now this, you ...