Take your first look at the Orbit US cover for Alien Clay (US) by Adrian Tchaikovsky, coming September 2024!

Cover Design by Lauren Panepinto; Cover Illustration by Yuko Shimizu

From Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author Adrian Tchaikovsky comes a far-future epic that confirms his place as a modern master of science fiction, in which a political prisoner must unlock the secrets of a strange and dangerous planet.

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 of 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.

Also by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Final Architecture
Shards of Earth (US)
Eyes of the Void (US)
Lords of Uncreation (US)











Children of Time
Children of Time (US)
Children of Ruin (US)
Children of Memory (US)