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jacey
Narrated by Ben Allen
Adrian Tchaikovsky is such a good writer, his humans and aliens are brilliantly interwoven. Xeno-biologist and freedom fighter, Arton Daghdev, is exiled for his crimes to an alien planet where he’s imprisoned under an oppressive regime. At first he’s given some status because of his scientific work, but he’s soon busted to a basic work detail in the toxic atmosphere of this very alien planet. He is tasked with discovering the origin of alien ruins, and the mystery of who the builders were, and where are they now. And he does indeed make that discovery, but not in the way the camp commandant expects him to.
