This is one of those time-warp books—the ones where you look away from the clock, then look back and it’s suddenly way past your bedtime. A brilliant mix of horror, science-fiction, and psychological thriller, Dead Silence will keep you reading late into the night, while making you look over your shoulder at every sound and leave the lights on.

p>The data controller is Headline Publishing Group Limited. I’m not sure how anyone would ever say this novel had “unspeakable horror” because everything was rather plain and not really some super scary haunted spaceship or evil ghosts to deliver such horror that it’s overhyped with. Barnes does a good job of setting up our story, with our protagonist Claire at the end of her run as a Team Lead for a corporate space mission, who is worried about what she does next, as she has no money and no prospects due to a checkered past. A Most-Anticipated Title in Bustle, i09 , LitHub, PopSugar , CrimeReads, BookRiot , GoodReads and more. A Best Book of 2022 by the New York Public Library • One of the Best SFF Books of 2022 (Gizmodo) • One of the Best SF Mysteries of 2022 (CrimeReads) • A GoodReads Choice Award finalist for Best Science Fiction!Dread slowly builds as small, frightening moments inside the Aurora multiply, showcasing Barnes’ patient plotting and steady pacing. I thought her story dominated the horror, which was the part I personally was looking forward to most. Can’t think of anything off the top of my head right now, but If you browse my horror shelf on Goodreads, maybe something will pop up! Barnes is giving you Titanic but make it scary, she’s giving you Event Horizon, she’s giving you Ghost Ship; for real, this book will make your skin crawl.

After twenty-six months in close quarters, I’m ready to murder him for that as much as for the snoring that rumbles through the air vents into my quarters, keeping me awake. The sci-fi aspects felt space-light and easy to absorb, for those who might be intimidated by spaceships. They discover the very first space luxury liner, the Aurora, which has been lost for over twenty years. Serena’s Rating 7: Very creepy when it stuck to its horror themes, but a bit baffling with some of the choices the author made later in the story.A. Barnes ended up being a huge letdown after all the reviews saying how scary it is, creepy, and being dubbed “the ultimate haunted house story in space” by critics. The gentle tug on the red LINA tether tells me that someone is at the cable controls, ready to reel me in on my signal.

Barnes ably conjures the kind of haunting setting and atmosphere required for this Event Horizon-esque novel… Recommended for fans of claustrophobic space horror. This novel had all that I could want but it took me a really long time to connect with these characters. They have it all: insightful reviews, in-depth interviews, honest commentary, the latest book news, convention coverage, forthcoming book release listings…you’ll feel like you’re in touch with what’s going on because Locus Magazine has their fingers on the pulse of genre. At the intersection of science fiction and horror, Dead Silence is the ultimate haunted house story, in space. Claire is the captain of a small maintenance repair ship which travels the outer boundaries of known space, where she has spent her entire adult life, with rotating Firefly style motley crews.When they catch the signal for a distress beacon for Aurora, a long-lost luxury liner, they decide to investigate.