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Adrian Tchaikovsky (duplicate): Alien Clay (2024, Orbit)

Professor Arton Daghdev has always wanted to study alien life in person. But when his …

bad

everything is described 3+ times, in a stilted convoluted non-linear fashion with random unnecessary scene changes. And it really only picks up the pace in the third act. It is like this was a short story padded out to be novel length.