Alien Clay

On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history – yet who were its builders and where did they go Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close, but his wishes become a reality in the worst possible way. His political activism sees him exiled from Earth to a penal colony – based on Kiln. There, he’s condemned to work under an alien sky until he dies. Kiln boasts a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem like nothing seen on Earth. The monstrous alien life interacts in surprising and sometimes disturbing ways with the human body, so Arton must risk death on a daily basis. However, the camp’s oppressive regime might just kill him first. If Arton can somehow escape both fates, and glimpse the planet’s interior, Kiln holds a wondrous, terrible secret. It will redefine life and intelligence as he knows it, and might just set him free...