November’s Speculative Fiction - Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
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Please join us as we discuss DEAD SILENCE, by S.A. Barnes. This space mystery/horror novel received wide acclaim, named a best book of 2022 by the NY Public Library, by Gizmodo and by CrimeReads, and was a GoodReads Choice Finalist for Best Science Fiction. The book is a relatively short read, at about 345 pages.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Titanic meets Event Horizon in this SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended.
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 luxury spaceliner 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 search of the ship reveals something isn’t right.
Whispers in the dark. Flickers of movement. Messages scrawled in blood. Claire must fight to hold on to her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate.
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