Would you ever want to travel to space? If you did, what would be the very first thing you’d look for once you were up there? 🚀✨
If I ever had the chance to go to space, I think the first thing I’d want to see would be Earth.
Not as a map. Not as borders. Not as headlines.
Just the blue curve of our planet floating in complete silence — oceans glowing, clouds swirling like soft brushstrokes, everything fragile and whole at once. I imagine that view would change something inside you forever.
To see home from that distance… I think that would be the most humbling and beautiful sight of all. 🌍✨
Name of Book: Dead Silence
Author: S A Barnes
Publisher: Transworld Digital
Publication Date: 8 Feb 2022
No. of Pages: 343
Format: Digital
A GHOST SHIP. A SALVAGE CREW. UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS.
Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed - and 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 at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick trip through the Aurora reveals something isn't right.
Whispers in the dark. Flickers of movement. Words scrawled in blood. Claire must fight to hold onto her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora, before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate.
My Opinion
Dead Silence by S A Barnes is a science-fiction horror novel that blends psychological unraveling with spacefaring suspense. However, the narrative leans far more heavily on the protagonist’s mental deterioration than on sustained terror. I went in expecting an atmospheric, deeply unsettling horror set in the vast silence of space, but the dread never fully materialized.
Many moments that were designed to be eerie gradually shifted into psychological introspection, diluting the horror impact. The story remains tightly centered on the main character, leaving others underdeveloped. The climax, unfortunately, feels rushed and somewhat unresolved, making the overall experience slightly underwhelming.
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