Hundreds of years after leaving Earth to colonize Proxima b, the six-thousand-passenger generation ship Calypso has given up and turned back, its failed mission leaving acting captain Jacklyn Albright responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive on the long voyage home. Food is running short, strange spatial disturbances rock the ship like storms, and unrest is spreading through its Wards.
Then crew members start dying—violently, and in pieces. Jack realizes the Calypso is carrying a stowaway: something hungry, hidden in its walls. Ness Brown's The Scourge Between Stars is a lean, fast, claustrophobic blend of science fiction and horror, a generation-ship survival story with a monster loose in the dark between the stars.