About the Author

Adrian Tchaikovksy was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, has practised law and now writes full time. He's also studied stage-fighting, perpetrated amateur dramatics and has a keen interest in entomology and tabletop games.

Adrian is the author of the critically acclaimed Shadows of the Apt series, the Echoes of the Fall series and other novels, novellas and short stories. Children of Time won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, and Children of Ruin and Shards of Earth both won the British Science Fiction Award for Best Novel. The Tiger and the Wolf won the British Fantasy Award for Best Fantasy Novel.

Reviews

An interplanetary-scale, hyper-Orwellian stew of malignant academia . . . The regularity with which Tchaikovsky delivers great books is astounding. Highly recommended
*Tade Thompson, author of Rosewater*

Alien Clay is convincing, compelling on human and cosmic levels, and unputdownable. With work like this, Adrian Tchaikovsky is fast becoming the voice of his generation in British SF
*Stephen Baxter, author of Proxima*

The central concept unravels itself in a manner that is both deeply satisfying and not at all predictable. He truly is one of our finest writers of SF right now. The whole was an excellent story told with Adrian's trademark skill and flair
*James Oswald, author of the Inspector McLean series*

A hell prison on a hell planet with a thrilling, important message: only connect. Adrian's firing on all cylinders in this one
*Ian McDonald, author of New Moon*

Is Tchaikovsky propping up the science fiction industry single-handedly? He is so prolific and reliably excellent that I think he might be
*New Scientist*

Restlessly brainy and utterly involving, Alien Clay is as morally engaged as 1984 and as immersive as Avatar
*Daily Mail*

[Adrian Tchaikovsky] has created a wonderfully strange new world as the basis for an intriguing puzzle with plenty of thrills
*Guardian*

Imaginative, horrifying and always amusing, it's the perfect gateway into what makes Tchaikovsky great.
*SciFiNow*

[A] brilliant, gripping standalone novel, which reconstitutes numerous familiar SF tropes to create something thought-provoking, unexpected and at times unsettlingly weird
*SFX Magazine, 5* Review*

Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky is another revolutionary adventure on an exoplanet with its own rules and paradigms
*British Fantasy Society*