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Gepubliceerd 2024 door Orbit.

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They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . .

On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they go?

Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close. Then his wishes become a reality in the worst way. His political activism sees him exiled from Earth to Kiln’s extrasolar labour camp. There, he’s condemned to work under an alien sky until he dies.

Kiln boasts a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem like nothing seen on Earth. The monstrous alien life interacts in surprising, sometimes shocking ways with the human body, so Arton will risk death on a daily basis. However, the camp’s oppressive regime might just kill him first. If Arton can somehow escape both fates, the world of Kiln holds …

6 edities

Alien Clay

2/3 so bleak and depressing that it was a struggle to get through, 1/3 exactly the kind of revolution porn that makes me love Tchaikovsky so much.

Probably the most /him/ of all his books I've read so far, but not the most fun of them.

Maybe I'm just not a fan of the prison planet genre, but this one does get pretty good in the second half

Geen beoordeling

For a while I thought I was accidentally rereading the author's other prison-on-another-planet book (Cage of Souls) which I just didn't get into and gave up halfway through, but maybe I should have stuck with it, because I also found this one slow-going and uninterestingly written for the first half but then it really got going and I thought the writing was almost poetry in the final chapters. My new theory is he's a different writer once the extraterrestrial biology gets going and the boring human-on-human preliminaries are out of the way.

Fav book this year!

I really loved this book. It felt like the interest and passion in biology that Mikhail Bakunin exhibited in Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution but told ask a sci-fi epic@!

analyzing the conditions and contradictions of a human inmate labour camp upon an exoplanet with alien life Tchaikovsky looks at what makes us human, what mutualism and organization mean, and the struggles against domination.

I would liken this to The Dispossessed of Tchaikovsky's catalog and want you all to read it then get coffee with me and talk about the ups and downs.

Ideas naturales para conformar la ley humana

Estuvo mágico leer en secuencia "Surviving Daybreak" (que ni le he dicho al bookwyrm por que no hay registro), "An unkindness of ghosts" y "Alien Clay". Las tres tocan temas parecidos, pero la de Daybreak es malísima, puro god-mode del autor, la protagonista siempre al borde del colapso se detiene a aclarar que es asexual y se las tiene que ver con la flora y fauna de un planeta alienígeno. La de los ghosts también es de sexualidad divergente, no hay planeta pero sí condiciones de cárcel. La de alien clay tiene condiciones de cárcel y flora y fauna alienígena. ¡vaya!

De las tres esta es la más interesante.

Creo que la idea de Chaikovski es tomar la lectura cooperativista de la evolución de las especies y desplazarla miles de millones de años hacia el futuro. El resultado: fusión extrema de organismos. Hm, o parecido a lo que …