Dead Silence

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Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed - made obsolete - when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate.

What they find is shocking: the Aurora, a famous…

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Why read it?

2 authors picked Dead Silence as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Amy Goldsmith

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Here we have a haunted ship -- in space!

Claire is days away from losing her job on a salvage ship when she receives a distress call from long-missing space-liner, The Aurora – likened to the Titanic in space. Having nothing to lose, she convinces the crew to investigate, reasoning that they will make a fortune from the wreckage. Once they board the ship, things take a swiftly sinister turn.

This book is so much fun and incredibly cinematic. Space horror deserves to be a much more popular genre. If you like the movie Event Horizon, you will love this…

From Amy's list on spooky ships.

Ness Brown

Author

I never knew I wanted a horror story set aboard an abandoned Titanic in space until I read Dead Silence.

This book involves an ill-fated recovery mission to the wreckage of a long-dead luxury cruise spaceship. What was supposed to be a major payday for the retrieval crew becomes a deadly need for escape from the chilling wreckage.

Barnes juxtaposes the main character’s horrifying experience onboard with her harrowed report to her employer afterward to raise the sense of unease and dread. Read this if you want to hesitate before looking under the bed at night for a week.

From Ness' list on sci-fi about space missions gone terribly wrong.

We Have Always Been Here

By Lena Nguyen,

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Misanthropic psychologist Dr. Grace Park is placed on the Deucalion, a survey ship headed to an icy planet in an unexplored galaxy. Her purpose is to observe the thirteen human crew members aboard the ship—all specialists in their own fields—as they assess the colonization potential of the planet, Eos. But frictions develop as Park befriends the androids of the ship, preferring their company over the baffling complexity of humans, while the rest of the crew treats them with suspicion and even outright hostility.

Shortly after landing, the crew finds themselves trapped on the ship by a radiation storm, with no…

We Have Always Been Here

By Lena Nguyen,

What is this book about?

This "claustrophobic and dark" debut science fiction thriller is "full of twisting ship corridors and unreliable characters" as it explores AI ethics and the effects of climate change (Kirkus Reviews).

Aboard a ship manned by humans and androids, one doctor must discover the source of her crew's madness-or risk succumbing to it herself.

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