The next year, summer 2023, Saros returned to find the familiar lakes utterly transformed. “You could see it right away,” she says. The water bodies had gone from crystal clear and blue–their rocky ...
Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Alien Clay (Tor, £22) opens with the xenobiologist Daghdev exiled to the gulag planet of Kiln for subversive activities designed to overthrow the repressive Mandate, and assigned ...