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The Scourge Between Stars

by Ness Brown
Bahni Turpin
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A debut space horror adventure in the vein of Alien, in which a starship captain must keep her crew alive while an unknown intruder hunts them.


As acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive as they limp back to Earth from their forebears' failed colony on a distant planet.


Faced with constant threats of starvation and destruction in the treacherous minefield of interstellar space, Jacklyn's crew has reached their breaking point. As unrest begins to spread throughout the ship's Wards, a new threat emerges, picking off crew members in grim, bloody fashion.


Jacklyn and her team must hunt down the ship's unknown intruder if they have any hope of making it back to their solar system alive.

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    April 4, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781667076089
      • File size: 143442 KB
      • Duration: 04:58:50

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 21, 2022
      Brown’s eerie debut takes readers aboard a doomed generation ship. The Calypso is part of a struggling fleet trying to return to Earth from the failed colony on Proxima Centauri b. With the ship already badly damaged by mysterious forces, perilously low on stores, cut off from the rest of the fleet, and dealing with persistent unrest on board, the last thing acting captain Jacklyn Albright needs is another problem. While helping with repairs from the latest catastrophe, however, Jacklyn hears scraping and banging noises inside the ship’s bulkheads and soon thereafter, what precious stores the ship has left are going missing and crew members are turning up eviscerated. Fragments of panicked, despairing messages from the rest of the fleet reveal that the Centauri ships have been harbouring something terrible that lives in the walls and is very fast, very clever, and very hungry. Now someone on Jacklyn’s ship has just let it out. The claustrophobic, locked-in environment of a generation ship makes an ideal setting for this tense, gory, and genuinely creepy novella. Brown handles the astronomy and exobiology equally as competently as the interpersonal dynamics and trauma. The result is a sci-fi horror mash-up that holds its own with the classics of the genre.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Bahni Turpin's performance raises the emotional stakes in this claustrophobic space thriller. Jacklyn "Jack" Albright's mother and sister recently died, and her father has gone mysteriously silent in the spaceship he captains. Suddenly, Jack is forced to become the CALYPSO's acting leader, navigate a mounting mutiny, and battle bloodthirsty aliens that have been secretly living in the ship's walls. As Jack fights for her crew's lives, she fosters an uncanny connection with a robot named Watson, and together they risk everything to kill the onboard beasts and save the CALYPSO. Turpin's balance of Jack's external authoritative leadership and interior self-questioning shines, and her vocal pacing sets this performance apart, giving listeners both the heart-pounding speed and eerie calm that bring the thrills to life. A.H. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine
    • Library Journal

      September 1, 2023

      Jacklyn "Jack" Albright unexpectedly finds herself acting as captain of the ship Calypso in Brown's debut science-fiction novella. Earth has long been uninhabitable, owing to climate disasters. Centuries ago, its people unsuccessfully relocated to a distant planet and are now heading back, hoping to start anew. Jack's father, the ship's original captain, is locked in his chambers, completely uncommunicative, ever since an unknown force killed Jack's mother. Now Jack must deal with infighting among the ship's different factions, drastic rationing of supplies, and bizarre, violent attacks from an unknown being that lives somewhere inside the vessel and is devouring people, one at a time. Characterization is sacrificed for the plot-driven story, which is clearly inspired by Ridley Scott's Alien films. Bahni Turpin is, as always, a fantastic narrator, perfectly conveying Jack's mounting panic, despair, and anger toward her father and her circumstances. VERDICT An exciting listen with a dramatic ending that will leave audiences breathlessly awaiting a sequel. Share with those who prefer their science fiction with a tinge of horror.--B. Allison Gray

      Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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