Ghost Station

Dr. Ophelia Bray has devoted her career to studying and preventing Eckhart-Reiskind Syndrome, the space-madness that has killed crews on long deployments. Over the objections of almost everyone, she attaches herself to a small salvage team sent to decommission an abandoned research station on an uninhabited planet, hoping to prove her methods work on a crew that badly needs them.

The crew resents her presence. The station is worse than the file said. And when they find a body that should not be there, the team's grip on itself, and on reality, starts to come apart. Ophelia cannot tell whether she is watching the syndrome she has spent her life chasing, or something on the planet that wants them gone.

S.A. Barnes follows Dead Silence with another claustrophobic science-fiction horror novel about isolation, grief, and the impossibility of knowing whether the threat is outside the airlock or inside your own head.