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The first two acts are the strongest, covering the investigation of the ship and the effects on the crew as you are fed bits and pieces of Claire's past. You expect some blend of Event Horizon, Ghost Ship, and The Shining in space, and that's exactly what you get. But what they find inside the doomed ship has horrifying psychological consequences for the crew, and forces Claire to confront long-buried traumas that may not all be in her head. On what is scheduled to be the last of these missions, the crew makes an unexpected discovery: The silent, drifting wreck of the Aurora, a Titanic-esque luxury liner that disappeared twenty years previous with all hands.īeyond the edge of mapped space and outside communications range, the crew decides to board the liner in hopes of flying it back as a salvage claim. She copes with this by taking the furthest, most isolated runs with the smallest crews she can. It's been a while since I've gotten my hands on a decent horror novel, and I don't think I've found a specifically sci-fi horror novel since, I dunno, Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear? What a treat.Ĭlaire is the team leader of a deep space maintenance ship and the childhood sole survivor of a Jamestown-like colony failure. The book delivered pretty much exactly what it said on the tin. Finished it in one continuous sitting including a very unproductive work afternoon, waiting at the Chinese takeout place, and on the toilet. I paid a cringe-inducing sticker price on this one at the bookstore today solely on the strength of the cover art and the inside flap sales pitch. TL DR: If "Event Horizon: The Book" appeals to you, buy it.