7/26/2023 0 Comments Scifi haunted space stationFrom there we speed ahead right into the story Captain Ida Cleveland, who is recounting his heroic mission in destroying a Mother Spider, in an ongoing war between humans and an enemy whose ships look like spiders, whilst saving Tau Retore.īoth of these mini-stories leave you feeling like you have missed something as the two voices recounting these sections are so different from the rest of the story. She is building up her rage until she is able to escape and track him down for his betrayal - this felt like a reversal of the Greek myths where the hero will go to the underworld to bring his beloved back to the world of the living. The first concerns a wife trapped in an underworld, left there by her husband. The book starts with what are almost two short stories. This new novel by Adam Christopher is interesting due to its structure. Is the transmission just a random burst of static from the past or a warning of an undying menace that threatens to devour humanity s future? He reaches out to the universe via an old-fashioned space radio, only to tune into a disturbing signal: a woman s voice that seems to echo across a thousand light-years of space. Arriving to find the station Commandant missing, Fleet communications plagued with interference, and a hostile skeleton crew haunted by insidious shadows and disembodied whispers, Ida becomes increasingly isolated and paranoid. Ryan Lawler, 7/10Ĭaptain Abraham Idaho Cleveland has one last mission before early retirement: decommissioning the U-Star Coast City, a semi-deserted research outpost orbiting a toxic star on the edge of Fleetspace. As I said before, this story is a case of what could have been from my perspective. But the explanation of what the ghosts are and what exactly their insidious plans are was way too long, way too detailed, way to boring, and just ruined all of the atmosphere, mystery and enigma that was present in the story. The characters have been well constructed and feel like real people with real problems. The setting and world building is fantastic. I don't have much else to say about the story to be honest. Other people may enjoy the action adventure and conspiracy theories that drive the last half of the story, but it just didn't work for me. I've never read a book that has taken me so high so fast, and then run off the rails in such a dramatic fashion. The characters lost all of their personality, the story lost all of its life, and I found the last half of the book an absolute chore to get through. The ghosts and mysteries were getting explained away and the the suspenseful horror story was switched out for a conspiracy driven corridor shoot'em up. Then, something changed, like the flick of a switch. I read the first half of this book in a single sitting and I thought it was one of the best scifi books I had read in a long time. The atmosphere in this story is intense, and the writing pulls you through the first half of the story with ease. The Burning Dark is a haunted house ghost story set on a derelict space station, where suspense reigns supreme. To pass the time Ida starts messing around with an old subspace radio, scanning frequencies that were banned from use centuries ago, and while he finds an ancient radio message sent from Earth long ago, he also finds something dark, sinister, trapped, waiting to get out. After a long successful career he is given a respite posting where he will be assisting the deconstruction of an old space station that has gone past its used-by date. The story follows Captain Idaho Cleveland, a decorated starship captain who single-handedly won an important battle against the human's most lethal enemy. Adam Christopher is a guy with a brilliant imagination whose books I have enjoyed in the past, but for me this story is a case of what could have been. The Burning Dark by Adam Christopher is a sci-fi horror story set on a distant space station surrounding a very strange star.
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