Books by Ness Brown

“I’m a scaredy cat. I don’t watch a lot of science fiction horror, but I like reading it. I can’t square that circle for you. I like reading scary books, as long as it’s not late at night. This book has been compared to Alien, and I think it’s a good comparison. It’s about a woman named Jack Albright, who is the first mate on a doomed generation ship. They traveled all the way to another planet, but it’s not hospitable. So they decided after all that to turn around and come back to Earth, but now their old ships are falling apart. Jack’s father is the captain, but he hasn’t come out of his room in weeks for some unknown reason, so she’s left in charge. And then all of a sudden, stuff starts happening. She hears knocking on the ship’s walls. They get choppy messages from other ships in the flotilla, saying: ‘Don’t open the door to the outside!’” Read more...

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