The Void

Interstellar travel is routine in this future. A ship can cover light years in hours, but every passenger has to be unconscious for the crossing, and sleep brings dreams built from the sleeper's own fears and secrets. People treat that as the fare, and nobody argues with it.

Six travellers board the Singularity, a ship that officially no longer exists. The jump they are making has no records behind it, so nobody on board knows what the crossing has done to earlier passengers, or whether anyone has made it before.

In the dark between stars, the dreams stop being private. Something is writing them, and it is not on the manifest. The travellers cannot wake their way out of it, because the sleep is the crossing itself.

The book is Lovecraftian horror set inside a hard science-fiction frame. Its feel owes more to a haunted house than to a space adventure. The action stays within one sealed vessel, the cast gets smaller as the voyage goes on, and the answer waiting at the end is one the reader may wish had stayed hidden.