Cold Eternity

By S.A. Barnes

"You'll want to read this one with the lights on."--Katee Robert, New York Times bestselling author

Cold Eternity is the instant USA Today bestselling space horror from S.A. Barnes, perfect for fans of Severance, where desperation for eternal life leads to a fate worse than death...

Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth's most fortunate citizens from more than a century ago...

The cryo program, created by trillionaire tech genius Zale Winfeld, is long defunct, and the AI hologram "hosts," ghoulishly created in the likeness of Winfeld's three adult children, are glitchy. The ship feels like a crypt, and the isolation gets to Halley almost immediately. She starts to see figures crawling in the hallways, and there's a constant scraping, slithering, and rattling echoing in the vents.

It's not long before Halley realizes she may have gotten herself trapped in an even more dangerous situation than the one she was running from....

Also by S.A. Barnes:
Dead Silence
Ghost Station

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250884950
• ISBN13: 9781250884954
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Tor Nightfire
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Great space horror!

S.A. Barnes is a master of space horror! I have read and enjoyed her previous books and so it was with great pleasure (and chills!) that I listened to this book. In this one Halley is on the run, after a big scandal and lucks out on finding a job in a quiet ship filled with cryogenically frozen dead rich people. I mean, what could go wrong there? It is ramped up by Halley having to stand watch and press a button every few hours meaning she is incredibly sleep deprived and so it would be easy to see things that aren't there, right? Add in some creepy holograms that may spout messages that everyone will die and you have all the makings of a wonderful horror story! And I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it, especially out walking at night which really set the mood. The narrator does a great job of bringing the characters and the things that creeping around in space (and old ships full of dead people) to life. This was quite the fun book to listen to and I am looking forward to see more works by this author! Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me a chance to listen to this audiobook!