David Wellington is a renowned author of science fiction and horror, nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, who has written over 50 books and stories.
The first book of the trilogy “Red Space” is written in the genre of space horror and thriller.
A suffocating atmosphere of a closed space, endless cosmos, and uncertainty.
It resembles the atmosphere of the movie series “Alien” and Peter Watts’s book “False Blindness.”
The spaceship “Artemis” is heading to the Ry-1 colony, carrying with it Lieutenant Petrov, punished for violating orders, Dr. Zhang Lei—haunted by nightmares from the past—and Captain Parker, who is forbidden to fly. During the voyage, the crew goes into cryogenic sleep, but their waking is unexpected: the ship’s hull is damaged, the capsules are destroyed, and the controlling AI appears to have gone mad. It turns out they were attacked by a ship from Ry-1. But that ship is empty, and all contact with the colony’s settlers has been completely cut off…