Alien Clay Part 1: Kiln Me Softly

We’re thrilled to announce an absolute departure of a book, where we’re trading high fantasy for hard sci-fi and crash-landing face first into Adrian Tchaikovsky’s ALIEN CLAY, a novel of terrifying alien ecologies, political rebellion against an oppressive regime, and the fight to understand a world that defies human logic. We get sidetracked in our introduction to relive a brutal friend fight during our study abroad in Rome, the start of Jacob’s long and perilous road to redemption, and our shared love of beetle-kin and other sci-fi fantasy bug-people. And then in our recap, xeno-ecologist and political dissident Arton Daghdev is exiled to a penal colony on an alien planet that uses scientists turned convict labor to uncover the buried secrets of a mysterious and long-lost ancient civilization of extra-terrestrial origin.