Michael Barnes
Sunny Moraine's horror novella is a brilliantly creepy story of an unfolding 'pandemic' apocalypse of a violent rage spread by eye contact. But this is no CDC zombie uprising survivalist story (not that there is anything wrong with that love your work Last Of Us) but a first person perspective of a young woman Riley, who has left the city to huddle in the small house her grandparents owned, somewhere in the country. While lots of humans have died—more accurately, killed each other and themselves—there is enough infrastructure left that she can order groceries via her computer. When the story opens, Riley throws her still-functioning phone into the lake. She herself isn’t quite sure why, except for a feeling that there is literally no one to connect with.
The story unfolds from her personal view and so you wonder how much of this is real and how much is it Riley's decent into the madness.
And I don't care what anyone says crows are creepy, nothing ends well if a crow is your herald of change.
Sunny Moraine's horror novella is a brilliantly creepy story of an unfolding 'pandemic' apocalypse of a violent rage spread by eye contact. But this is no CDC zombie uprising survivalist story (not that there is anything wrong with that love your work Last Of Us) but a first person perspective of a young woman Riley, who has left the city to huddle in the small house her grandparents owned, somewhere in the country. While lots of humans have died—more accurately, killed each other and themselves—there is enough infrastructure left that she can order groceries via her computer. When the story opens, Riley throws her still-functioning phone into the lake. She herself isn’t quite sure why, except for a feeling that there is literally no one to connect with.
The story unfolds from her personal view and so you wonder how much of this is real and how much is it Riley's decent into the madness.
And I don't care what anyone says crows are creepy, nothing ends well if a crow is your herald of change.
I read and enjoyed Yume Kitasei's debut novel The Deep Sky and this story confirms her as a science fiction author who writes a compelling tale. This is a thrilling anti-colonial space heist to save an alien civilization. One blurb which I thought summed it up nicely by the Author Veronica Roth "Come … for Indiana Jones-style outer space heist adventure, stay for the sensitively drawn characters and thoughtful exploration of other forms of life far beyond our own"
I read and enjoyed Yume Kitasei's debut novel The Deep Sky and this story confirms her as a science fiction author who writes a compelling tale. This is a thrilling anti-colonial space heist to save an alien civilization. One blurb which I thought summed it up nicely by the Author Veronica Roth "Come … for Indiana Jones-style outer space heist adventure, stay for the sensitively drawn characters and thoughtful exploration of other forms of life far beyond our own"
"The others are waking up.” was a phrase that gave me a delightful chill when I read it.
"In Madeleine Roux’s Salvaged, Rosalyn Devar works as a salvager, going out to “dead” spaceships to clean up the bodies. It’s a cruddy job for someone as highly-educated and competent as she is, but she left her father’s company and walked away to somewhere she could be anonymous and alone. She had been attacked by a co-worker and her father did nothing about it because he couldn’t afford to fire the man. Now a suit from the salvaging company has taken some sort of interest in her. There have been several dead ships recently that seem a bit too similar, so he wants her to keep her eyes open on her next trip out. In return, he won’t fire her for drinking on the job! When Rosalyn makes her way out to the latest dead ship, she finds that not all of the crew is actually dead–and there’s a mysterious alien fungus that has spread out over the ship.
The crew of the ship Roz is checking out is pretty interesting. Rayan is a young scientist who’s trying to analyze the fungus. Misato is an older scientist who came along on the working equivalent of taking a vacation. Edison is the weary captain, and Piero is a security officer who comes across as unusually violent. All of these people think that Roz seems familiar, but none of them know why. Some of them seem to want to stop Roz, while others try to help her. They all make reference to “Foxfire” or “Mother,” and both words seem to refer to the fungal growth.
There’s scientific discovery, human minds fighting against an alien influence, secrets, betrayal, a murder mystery, and more. Mother wants to be found, and Roz and the crew have to stop that from happening–otherwise her influence could spread across the known universe. Speaking of the universe, the worldbuilding is great. Earth is slowly being evacuated due to terrible weather and dwindling resources. The book doesn’t spend too much time on that, just including enough information to set the stage. There’s also great creativity in how the ship is used throughout the plot". -Heather Errant Dreams
A few reviewers have mentioned that science fiction is not a genre that Madeleine Roux has written in before but her usual work in the horror genre has stood her in good stand here. I will certainly seek out more of her work
"The others are waking up.” was a phrase that gave me a delightful chill when I read it.
"In Madeleine Roux’s Salvaged, Rosalyn Devar works as a salvager, going out to “dead” spaceships to clean up the bodies. It’s a cruddy job for someone as highly-educated and competent as she is, but she left her father’s company and walked away to somewhere she could be anonymous and alone. She had been attacked by a co-worker and her father did nothing about it because he couldn’t afford to fire the man. Now a suit from the salvaging company has taken some sort of interest in her. There have been several dead ships recently that seem a bit too similar, so he wants her to keep her eyes open on her next trip out. In return, he won’t fire her for drinking on the job! When Rosalyn makes her way out to the latest dead ship, she finds that not all of the crew is actually dead–and there’s a mysterious alien fungus that has spread out over the ship.
The crew of the ship Roz is checking out is pretty interesting. Rayan is a young scientist who’s trying to analyze the fungus. Misato is an older scientist who came along on the working equivalent of taking a vacation. Edison is the weary captain, and Piero is a security officer who comes across as unusually violent. All of these people think that Roz seems familiar, but none of them know why. Some of them seem to want to stop Roz, while others try to help her. They all make reference to “Foxfire” or “Mother,” and both words seem to refer to the fungal growth.
There’s scientific discovery, human minds fighting against an alien influence, secrets, betrayal, a murder mystery, and more. Mother wants to be found, and Roz and the crew have to stop that from happening–otherwise her influence could spread across the known universe. Speaking of the universe, the worldbuilding is great. Earth is slowly being evacuated due to terrible weather and dwindling resources. The book doesn’t spend too much time on that, just including enough information to set the stage. There’s also great creativity in how the ship is used throughout the plot". -Heather Errant Dreams
A few reviewers have mentioned that science fiction is not a genre that Madeleine Roux has written in before but her usual work in the horror genre has stood her in good stand here. I will certainly seek out more of her work
