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Scourge Between Stars

Pages
163
Published
2023
Language
English

Synopsis

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.

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About the author

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Ness Brown

Ness Brown grew up in New Mexico and studied astronomy at Columbia University, later teaching college astronomy and astrobiology for six years before pursuing a PhD in astrophysics. Their debut novella, The Scourge Between Stars (2023), draws on their teaching material about the search for life in the universe.

Characters

Jacklyn AlbrightProtagonist

The acting captain of the generation ship Calypso, hunting the creature killing her crew.

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