Event Horizon

by Steven E. McDonald

Book Overview

2046 A.D.: Seven years ago an experimental space vessel disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Now the ship has been found orbiting Neptune. When a salvage team is sent to investigate, they... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812540069
• ISBN13: 9780812540062
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

A deeper dive into the Event Horizon.

If you're a fan of the film looking for more detail and information, then you'll love this book! If you've never seen the film and you're a fan of closterphobia psychological horror and/or dark sci-fi, then you'll love this book! Both an excellent work of science fiction and a terrifying work of horror with no compromise in either genre, EVENT HORIZON is a dark and atmospheric haunted-house type tale with a brilliant and unique Sci-Fi twist.

If you want a book that makes you think......

This is it. I read some of the "bad reviews" that are already on this website concerning this book. After reading the reviews, I decided that the "bad reviews" were unfounded, and were left by people who just didn't "get" the book. Black Holes are still a mystery to us, as is death, space exploration, and Heaven/Hell. This book ties all of these things together for an excellent thrill ride.Good job McDonald, this book goes down as one of my favorites of all time. I have read 100s of Fantasy novels, but science fiction novels just don't interest me. But with this book/movie, I made an exception.

Read between the lines to get the plot.

If you have seen the movie and really appreciated it, then the book filled all the holes. You have to read between the lines to see it though. I am not sure what you should do first though, read the book or watch the movie. I watched the movie first. To make a long review short the book is short(as is the movie,) but is gripping and as terrifying as the screenplay.

This book is one of the best books I have ever read!!

I read this book about a year ago, and till then I wasn't that much into books. I loved it, I read it all in about 1 and a half days. I mean I couldn't get my eyes off of it. I knew what was gonna happen, cause I saw the movie, but the book just had my mind going. I liked it so much that I read it about 3 times in one week. For all you horror and si-fi lovers out there this book is defintily for us. Hope you love the book as much as I do.

This truly is a worthy companion to a very good movie.

This book is near enough perfect to rate the high rating I'm giving it. It's an unusual concept: space travel leading to Hell, but effective. Probably some people are wondering about the unresolved questions it leaves, like where the ship went, but those only add to the overall effect of terror from an unseen source. If you don't know your enemy, you're always more afraid than if you do. This and the movie, though unappreciated, should in time come to stand alongside Blade Runner as cornerstones in modern sci-fi. I hope Hollywood can avoid adding to this masterpiece: There can be no effective sequel to a work like this.

Very good! Lots of details that weren't in the film!

I liked the book very much. In fact, I'm now reading it for the 3rd time! It clears-up a LOT of plot-points and provides details the movie didn't give you (and which, lacking them, rendered the film barely coherent.)