Send a linguist with multiple-personality disorder and a biologist so spliced with machinery that he can’t feel his own flesh. Who should we send to meet the alien, when the alien doesn’t want to meet? Something talks out there: but not to us. The heavens have been silent since―until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. This time she’s accompanied by a unit of Colonial Marines, but even their firepower may not be enough for them to survive and learn the fate of the colony known as Hadley’s Hope.īlindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts – Two months have past since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. There they discovered hundreds of eggs, and just one slaughtered everyone but Ripley. When the crew returns to their ship and abandon the planet, nobody forefeels that the real horror will begin very soon…Īliens: The Official Movie Novelization by Alan Dean Foster – In the sequel to the 1979 film Alien, Ellen Ripley is forced to return to planet LV-426, where her crew encountered the hostile Alien creature. The astronauts land on the planet surface and go to investigate an alien spaceship where one of them is attacked by an alien which fasten itself on his face. But were they simply dead? Or something else?Īlien: The Official Movie Novelization by Alan Dean Foster – A crew of spaceship Nostromo is suddenly woken up from a cryogenic sleep because of mysterious signals coming from an unknown planet and received by a ship computer. Outside―the mystery of the missing group that had gone before her. Inside―voices entreating her to love them. The whole world admired and respected her. She was involved with the most exciting adventure mankind had ever undertaken: a manned expedition to Mars. The Season of Passage by Christopher Pike – Dr. Evenson – Is the prequel novel to the Dead Space franchise and it revolves around geophysicist Michael Altman as he investigates a mysterious signal and uncovers a mysterious alien artifact. You may also like most of these books too.ĭead Space: Martyr by B. Note: If you’re a fan of the Alien franchise–even the video game Alien: Isolation (2014), the video game Prey (2017), the films Event Horizon (1997), Infini (2015), Pandorum (2009), The Void (2016), Harbinger Down (2015), The Last Days on Mars (2013) and whatnot. Either way, you’re sure to be spooked at some point when reading them. And some of them take place somewhere on Earth instead of space. There’s even a few that don’t have a lot of focus on the horror element, but leans heavily towards sci-fi or another genre like thriller or mystery. I’ve also included a few books that have a similar isolation and creepy atmosphere to them that ‘space horror’ has. If not, the humans might’ve unknowingly, maybe even purposely disturbed something that they shouldn’t have. Nearly all of them is set in deep space on a spaceship, research station, moon, and so on with an unknown entity–be it a deadly extraterrestrial, alien virus and whatnot that the protagonist must face. Most of the books are considered space horror, a subgenres of science fiction. If you enjoyed the survival horror game franchise Dead Space, you might enjoy some of these book recommendations.
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