We Have Always Been Here

Dr. Grace Park is a psychologist who prefers machines to people. She is assigned to the Deucalion, a survey ship bound for Eos, an icy planet in an unexplored galaxy. Her job is to watch the thirteen human crew members, each a specialist in a different field, while they judge whether Eos could be colonized.

Park gets on better with the ship's androids than with the humans, whom she finds baffling. The crew sees this and responds with suspicion, and sometimes open hostility. The friction is already there before the ship reaches its destination.

Shortly after the landing, a radiation storm pins everyone aboard. Nobody can send a message or leave until it passes. The ship has no windows. Park's patients begin suffering waking nightmares in which they are helpless and tongueless, and the androids start acting oddly.

This is a psychological science fiction thriller set in a sealed space, told around one doctor who has to work out what is damaging her crew's minds before it reaches her own. Expect a tense, claustrophobic read in which paranoia tightens page by page, and in which the crew, the mission and Eos itself all come under doubt.