Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (review) Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:04:09 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:04:12 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e9dc24eb833b1a3ee57ba33d8a739331"; logging-data="2758558"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+cZ90f59QgAnYWWdx2WD+zdb3CdSPzxvs=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:pV3dDVvPaMbT+cmzBnGio25jxGs= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 1487 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