What lies on the surface of the rare moon shroud?
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Shroud
Adrian Tchaikovsky (TOR)
The latest novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Shroud examine the question of whether or not we are facing alien intelligence, we actually recognize it as intelligent. And whether the aliens recognize us as something above the lives of the pond.
This setting is a distant future, advancing into a new star system by commercial vessels. The culture of ships is cruel, trivial and very corporate. In other words, they are fully recognized by the human beings living today. The crew is unzen, used when necessary, and then immediately reclaimed.
Source: www.newscientist.com