Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/192166 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Alien Clay Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky Narrator: Ben Allen Format: mp3 Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins Release date: 03-28-24 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 69 ratings Genres: First Contact Publisher's Summary: 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 a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem are the ruins of a civilization, but who were the vanished builders and where did they go?