{"product_id":"shroud-adrian-tchaikovsky-2025-orbit-books-trade-paperback-yuko-shimizu-cover","title":"Shroud - Adrian Tchaikovsky - 2025 Orbit Books Trade Paperback - Yuko Shimizu Cover","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as:\u003cbr\u003e• Shelf wear or scuffing on the cover\u003cbr\u003e• Creases, marks, or tears on pages or dust jacket\u003cbr\u003e• Possible remainder marks or previous owner’s name\/notes inside\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCover art: \u003c\/strong\u003eYuko Shimizu\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlurb\u003c\/strong\u003e: “An utterly gripping story of alien encounter and survival from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning \u003ci\u003eChildren of Time\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew planets are fair game to asset strippers and interplanetary opportunists – and a commercial mission to a distant star system discovers a moon that is pitch black, but alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is anathema to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnder no circumstances should a human end up on Shroud’s inhospitable surface. Except a catastrophic accident sees Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne doing just that. Forced to stage an emergency landing, in a small, barely adequate vehicle, they are unable to contact their ship and are running out of time. What follows is a gruelling journey across land, sea and air. During this time, Juna and Mai begin to understand Shroud’s dominant species. It also begins to understand them . . .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIf they escape Shroud, they’ll face a crew only interested in profiteering from this extraordinary world. They’ll somehow have to explain the impossible and translate the incredible. That is, if they make it back at all.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orbit Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48639123718386,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/7685\/4977\/files\/25275273-FD0D-49C1-9E81-9704053FAB6E.jpg?v=1767819411","url":"https:\/\/postmarkedfromthestars.com\/products\/shroud-adrian-tchaikovsky-2025-orbit-books-trade-paperback-yuko-shimizu-cover","provider":"Postmarked from the Stars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}