A review by wordswritinstarlight
The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.0

This novella isn’t reinventing the space horror wheel, but it does a very respectable job at what it’s trying to do and I like that in a book.  Jack is a great protagonist in the vein of Ellen Ripley, and setting the story on a ship trying to go back to Earth from a failed colony was a fun take on the familiar generational ship concept.  This book read like nothing so much as a love story to space operas, horror or otherwise—I clocked at least five different nods to various things, including two separate Star Treks (Stars Trek?  Voyager and The Wrath of Khan).  Good monsters, well-thought-out sci-fi pseudoscience, and multiple explosive decompressions, which is really all I’m looking for in this kind of thing.

Recommended to lovers of Alien, the Year of Hell Star Trek: Voyager episodes, and watching every conceivable problem happen onscreen at the same time.
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