✨ Sci-Fi STANDALONE: Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky 🌑👽🚀
About the event
Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky (480 pages) Genre: Science Fiction • First Contact • Survival Horror
Summary: A commercial expedition travelling through a distant star system discovers Shroud: a pitch-black moon alive with radio activity. Its crushing gravity, immense atmospheric pressure and complete lack of oxygen make it deadly to humans—but potentially incredibly valuable to the corporation hoping to exploit it. When a catastrophic accident forces scientists Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne to crash-land on Shroud in a barely adequate escape vehicle, they must cross its hostile surface while their supplies and time rapidly run out. But they soon realise they aren’t alone. Something extraordinary lives in the darkness—and as the two women struggle to understand it, it begins trying to understand them in return.
Tense, atmospheric and deeply unsettling, *Shroud* is a gripping story of survival and first contact that explores communication, intelligence, corporate greed and the terrifying possibility of encountering a form of life completely unlike our own.
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Join the Sci-Fi/Fantasy Series Squad! 🚀📚
If you’ve ever gotten halfway through a fantasy or sci-fi series and needed a little group support to finish, this is your crew. We’re reading one book a month together—so you can keep pace, stay motivated and enjoy deep-dive discussions without feeling overwhelmed.
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How It Works:
🪐 Monthly Focus: We’re tackling one sci-fi or fantasy book per month. This November, we’re venturing into the darkness with *Shroud* by Adrian Tchaikovsky—a tense and terrifying first-contact story set on one of the most hostile worlds imaginable. 🙌 No Pressure Zone: Didn’t finish the book? No stress. Come anyway—we’ll chat about Shroud’s alien ecosystem, the characters, the science, our favourite moments and the questions the story raises about intelligence and communication.
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📍 Join us at the Dog & Bull (Surrey Street) in Croydon on Wednesday 25th November at 7:00 PM** Grab a drink, keep your survival gear close, and let’s venture into the darkness of Shroud together.
