More horror and a Billy cameo!
Thank you Tor Nightfire for the gifted copy and keeping my TBR full of horror
COLD ETERNITY – S.A. Barnes (Released April 8th, 2025)
You can see my thoughts on Barnes’s other book, GHOST STATION, here
Book Description:
Cold Eternity is the newest action-packed space horror from S.A. Barnes perfect for fans of Severance, where desperation for eternal life leads to a fate worse than death…
Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth’s most fortunate citizens from more than a century ago…
The cryo program, created by trillionaire tech genius Zale Winfeld, is long defunct, and the AI hologram “hosts,” ghoulishly created in the likeness of Winfeld’s three adult children, are glitchy. The ship feels like a crypt, and the isolation gets to Halley almost immediately. She starts to see figures crawling in the hallways, and there’s a constant scraping, slithering, and rattling echoing in the vents.
It’s not long before Halley realizes she may have gotten herself trapped in an even more dangerous situation than the one she was running from….
My Thoughts: 5/5 stars
Do you like space horror? Creepy abandoned ships floating through space? The unknowns scurrying about within those ships? Finding out the whys and the hows? Well, this is the book and author for you. I have yet to read Dead Silence, but I’ve heard phenomenal things. I liked Ghost Station, but this one, Cold Eternity, I loved.
I think I timed this perfectly with when we rewatched Event Horizon, followed by Life. There’s just something so unsettling about an empty ship, or a rescue, or any type of recovery in these situations. What makes this weirder? The ship that Halley is laying low on is full of cryogenically frozen people. The cryo program was for the most fortunate and wealthy people of Earth – but over a century has passed, and Halley is quickly figuring out that something isn’t quite right.
The isolation alone would get to me. The mind plays tricks on you in the dark and when you’re all alone. But WAS that something scratching in the walls? Are the creepy AI glitchy “hosts” up to something else? I loved this and that ending! Highly recommend for fans of sci-fi or space horror.
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