Read an extract from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Alien Clay

Published on January 17, 2025

In the opening to Adrian Tchaikovsky's science fiction novel Alien Clay, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, our hero wakes from years of space travel to a terrifying new reality

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