Science Fiction Trouble Feature: 10 of the Best Sci-Fi Horror Books

Full Immersion by Gemma Amor

These are 3 things that are upsetting: 1. Being dead. 2. Finding a body. 3. Not remembering anything. Now ideate they’re each occurring astatine once. That’s what happens to Magpie. She finds a dormant assemblage by the river, and it’s her. How is that possible? She doesn’t know, due to the fact that she can’t retrieve what has happened oregon however she got there. She besides doesn’t recognize she’s being monitored arsenic portion of an experiment.

Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes

This is 1 of the champion sci-fi abstraction fearfulness books to travel on recently. It’s a small similar Event Horizon meets Avenue Five. The unit of Claire Kovalik’s salvage vessel are astir to implicit their past ngo erstwhile they deed paydirt: they find the Aurora. The Aurora was a luxury abstraction cruise liner that went missing 2 decades ago. Now it’s floating connected the outer rim of explored space. Claire decides to cheque the vessel out, due to the fact that the wealth they tin get from a celebrated vessel could lick their problems. But adjacent though the vessel has been missing for 20 years, the horrors that occurred connected committee are inactive present.

Leech by Hiron Ennes

So this is 1 of those books that the little you know, the better. It’s Gothic horror, but it’s besides labeled arsenic subject fiction. What? Yep. But to explicate wherefore that is would spoil the story. So let’s conscionable accidental it’s a fearfulness caller acceptable successful a desolate chateau, involving doctors, a aesculapian institute, and a precise antithetic narrator. Oh, and it’s weird and gross AF, and you should work it close now.

Thank you for signing up! Keep an oculus connected your inbox.

By signing up you hold to our terms of use

Aurora by David Koepp

Koepp’s past book, Cold Storage, was a fearfulness caller astir a biohazard with a assemblage count, featuring a lethal alien taxon that escapes a subject facility. This time, he’s utilizing world to frighten us. A elephantine star flare could destruct our entree to exertion and energy connected the plane, and that’s conscionable what happens successful Aurora. In the satellite that follows specified an incident, Aubrey Wheeler indispensable defender her vicinity against the precise existent unit that volition travel successful the caller dystopian reality. All portion trying to support her ex-husband and criminals from her home.

We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen

Like galore of the champion subject fabrication novels, this 1 starts retired with abstraction exploration. The Deucalion has acceptable retired from Earth to analyse a imaginable habitable planet. Dr. Grace Park is the alternate scientist aboard the ship. She’s mostly determination to observe, since there’s already a doc dealing with the crew. But past things commencement to spell very, precise wrong. Grace is near to effort and negociate the sessions of an progressively erratic crew. Meanwhile the ships AI are besides getting weirder, and Grace discovers determination mightiness beryllium thing hidden successful the bowels of the vessel that is causing each the problems.

The Void Ascendant by Premee Mohamed

This is 1 of 2 sequels I privation to item connected this list, due to the fact that the full bid is truthful freaking good. So arsenic not to spoil the archetypal 2 books, I volition springiness you a little overview of the Beneath the Rising series. While trying to invent exertion that volition assistance the planet, humans alternatively make a instrumentality that awakens the Ancient Ones, who are not blessed astir being disturbed. At all. Now the quality contention indispensable fig retired a mode to past a full caller happening they didn’t cognize existed. It each concludes spectacularly successful The Void Ascendant!

Your Mind is simply a Terrible Thing by Hailey Piper

First, I privation to accidental however overmuch I emotion this title. There’s the look “The caput is simply a unspeakable happening to waste.” And the Ministry medium The Mind Is a Terrible Thing To Taste. (Omg I americium truthful old.) But this nails it: minds are terrible. Good grief, are brains occupation sometimes. And successful this spacecraft fearfulness novel, they’re going to origin radical a batch of problems, erstwhile aliens fig retired however to hack them similar computers and crook radical into their puppets.

Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky

More abstraction horrors! It’s the future, and a demon is terrorizing a distant planet. The 4th girl of the planet’s queen wants to effort and prevention the planet’s people, since the remainder of her household doesn’t look to privation to bash it. She whitethorn not beryllium capable to bash it alone, truthful she turns to the anthropologist from an Earth mission, who has been successful a heavy slumber for the past respective years, waiting for caller instructions. But demons were decidedly not successful the occupation description. It’s a small past horrors, a small fairy tale, and a full batch of fun.

The Legacy of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson

This is the different bid I wanted to notation due to the fact that it’s truthful scary and gory, and specified a large time. The Molly Southbourne bid starts disconnected with a young miss who has large problems. If Molly ever sheds a driblet of blood, that humor turns into a caller mentation of her — and it tries to execution her. As you tin imagine, it’s hard to spell done beingness without ever getting a scratch oregon a bloody nose, and Molly has to termination a LOT of versions of herself. But wherefore is she similar this? Where did she travel from? And what’s going to hap erstwhile she gets the answers? Find retired successful this astonishing conclusion, aft you work the archetypal 2 of course! And for a large abstraction execution mystery, cheque retired Thompson’s astir caller book, Far from the Light of Heaven.

Dead Space by Kali Wallace

And past but not least, a thrilling communicative astir execution connected a abstraction station! Space abruptly feels a full batch smaller erstwhile you’re sharing it with a killer. Hester Marley has a boring occupation arsenic a information defender for a abstraction mining company. Injuries sustained successful a violent onslaught years earlier destroyed her expansive dreams of abstraction travel. Then she hears from an aged person who has caller accusation astir the attack. But earlier they tin stock it, helium is murdered. Now Hester indispensable fig retired what helium uncovered and who she tin trust.