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    "description": "<p>They looked into darkness. The darkness looked back ... An utterly gripping story of survival and first contact on a hostile planet from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Children of Time. A commercial expedition to a distant star system discovers a pitch-black moon alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is deadly to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud. Under no circumstances can a human survive Shroud&rsquo;s inhospitable surface &ndash; but a catastrophic accident forces Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne to make an emergency landing in a barely adequate escape vehicle. Alone, and fighting for survival, the two women embark on a gruelling journey across land, sea and air in search of salvation. But as they travel, Juna and Mai begin to understand Shroud&rsquo;s unnerving alien species. It also begins to understand them. If they escape Shroud, they&rsquo;ll somehow have to explain the impossible and translate the incredible. That is, if they make it back at all ...</p>",
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