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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (review) Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:04:09 -0600
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On 1/14/2025 7:55 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
> Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
> 
> Can an academic condemned by an authoritarian world government discover
> who or what build the ruins on an alien world before the voracious local
> life eats him alive?
> 
> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/always-burning

Alan Dean Foster addressed this in "Midworld" along time ago.
    https://www.amazon.com/Midworld-Alan-Dean-Foster/dp/0345283570

Lynn