I especially loved the Titanic influence. The comp to Titanic and The Shining is quite apt. I definitely recommend it to any SF Horror fans.īarnes dealt up everything that was promised in the publisher's synopsis. Y'all, I had so much fun reading Dead Silence. They need to get out of there, but is the Aurora herself sabotaging them? They are hearing things, seeing things it is disturbing to say the least.

It's hard to determine what is real and what is not. Trying to piece it all together, while also trying to figure out how best to prove their claim, Claire and her crew struggle. Boarding the ship, it quickly becomes evident that something had gone horribly wrong aboard the Aurora. She needs this.Īdmittedly, it's dangerous. Maybe Claire would finally be able to start her own business. Without much to lose, they collectively decide to investigate.Īfter all, being able to make a salvage claim on such a luxurious and famous ship could literally change all of their lives for the better. They're surprised to find that the signal is being sent from the famous luxury liner, Aurora, missing since its maiden voyage more than 20-years ago.

Claire must fight to hold onto her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora, before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate.Ĭlaire Kovalik, and her crew of communication beacon repair specialists, are out at the very edge of the system on their final mission together, when they pick up an odd distress signal coming from outside of 'civilized' space. But a quick trip through the Aurora reveals something isn’t right. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. What they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate. Barnes’ Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended.Ĭlaire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed-made obsolete-when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal.

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes