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“Perfectly unsettling. Ghost Station scratches the itch for space horror just right—and doesn’t shrink from the grisly consequences of exploring the unknown.
— Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author
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Ghost Station is everything I could want in a horror story and more. Barnes became one of my favorite authors with Dead Silence and this is a stunning follow-up. Highly recommended.
— Darcy Coates, USA Today bestselling author of Dead of Winter
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A taut, twisting thriller that subverts every trope and expectation in all the best—and most terrifying—ways imaginable.
— Philip Fracassi, author of Boys in the Valley
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A hostile planet, mysterious alien ruins, and a distrustful crew of traumatized people—it’s a potent combination that makes for a tense, gripping, and delightfully creepy thriller.
— Kali Wallace, author of Dead Space
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Barnes leads us step by step up a mounting staircase of dread, through horrors both real and suggestive.
— David Wellington, author of Paradise-1
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Fans of exploration horror will go wild for this creepy, pacey, and captivating novel…. Ghost Station will infect you.
— Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces
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The best space horror since Alien.
— Gretchen McNeil, author of Ten and #murdertrendingPraise for Dead Silence
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A Best Book of 2022 by the New York Public Library • One of the Best SFF Books of 2022 (Gizmodo) • One of the Best SF Mysteries of 2022 (CrimeReads) • A GoodReads Choice Award finalist for Best Science Fiction!
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I ate this book in one sitting because I was in the mood to be freaked out and it delivered tremendously. Truly un-put-downable in its purest sense.
— Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights
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Stomach-turning, sinister space horror perfect for fans of Alien and Event Horizon.
— Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author
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This is great, immersive, atmospheric space horror that shows Barnes is a talented storyteller and proves that, despite rumors to the contrary, horror belongs in space.
— Locus
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Dead Silence mixes horror, mystery and sci-fi into a thrill ride sure to shock you out of your reading rut. This is one of those time-warp books—the ones where you look away from the clock, then look back and it’s suddenly way past your bedtime.
— BookPage, Starred Review
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Barnes is giving you Titanic but make it scary, she’s giving you Event Horizon, she’s giving you Ghost Ship; for real, this book will make your skin crawl.
— BookRiot
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This story slides and slithers from creepy and atmospheric to skin-crawling, edge-of-your-seat terror.
— T. Kingfisher, author of What Moves the Dead
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Dead Silence gives you the suffocating claustrophobia of 2001: A Space Odyssey mixed with the horrors of Alien. I couldn't stop reading.
— Mur Lafferty, Hugo Award-Winning author of Six Wakes
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Barnes ably conjures the kind of haunting setting and atmosphere required for this Event Horizon-esque novel... Recommended for fans of claustrophobic space horror.
— Booklist
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Barnes plays nicely on human fears of both madness and of ghosts, carefully blurring the line between science fiction and horror... Those with a taste for blending genres will enjoy this combo.
— Publishers Weekly
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Creepy and satisfying; I'll be checking under my bed tonight.
— Sarah Pinsker, author of the Nebula Award winning A Song For A New Day
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At the intersection of science fiction and horror, Dead Silence is the ultimate haunted house story, in space.
— Alma Katsu, author of The Deep and The Hunger