The signal leads them to an abandoned ship. With random suicidal thoughts and depression creeping in every time she thinks about being back on Earth and unemployed, Claire is happy to go explore a bizarre distress signal. For now, however, she is still the boss of a beacon repair crew floating in space and doing work she feels is already useless, given recent technological advances. Barnes’s Dead Silence is a creepy and incredibly atmospheric horror novel that bridges the gap between Gothic horror and extreme horror… Claire Kovalik is about to be forcefully retired and has no idea what her future holds. Here’s a longer pull from Gabino Iglesias’ excellent review at Locus Online. Many of the reviews of Dead Silence compare it to the 1997 Laurence Fishburne/Sam Neill horror flick Event Horizon (“This Event Horizon-esque novel recommended for fans of claustrophobic space horror” ― Booklist), and that’s not a bad thing in my book. Barnes’ Dead Silence, which Library Journal calls “a compelling haunted-house-in-space frame excellent worldbuilding and sustained tension,” and Locus says is a “great, immersive, atmospheric space horror that proves that, despite rumors to the contrary, horror belongs in space.” (And yeah, for the record, Mur Lafferty tells us Dead Silence offers “the suffocating claustrophobia of 2001: A Space Odyssey mixed with the horrors of Alien.” That’s just not a blend you see every day.) Well, at least it hadn’t until the arrival of S.A. That’s all well and good, but has it given us a haunted house story in space that’s a successful cross between 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien? No. Launched in 2019, it’s published books by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Thomas Olde Heuvelt, Catriona Ward, Cassandra Khaw, Ellen Datlow, T. Dead Silence (Tor Nightfire, January 24, 2023).

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