A sci-fi psychological horror for fans of Annihilation, Moon, and Event Horizon.
Twenty-six days ago, the deep-sea research vessel Horizon vanished from all contact-no distress signals, no evacuation protocols, no signs of life. Now it's been found, eerily intact, drifting in storm-darkened waters.
A specialized recovery team is dispatched to investigate.
Standard procedure. Containment, retrieval, analysis.
But nothing aboard the Horizon is standard.
The systems are operational-but too operational.
The ship is clean-but too clean.
The logs are incomplete, and yet... something knows they've arrived.
As the team navigates its echoing halls, they encounter data anomalies, impossible environmental readings, and a silence that seems to study them. Neural patterns appear where none should be. Reflections delay. Memories blur. The ship has learned its crew-and now it's learning them.
And buried within the final research logs is a single line never meant to be read:
Trust nothing. Not even yourself.
From author Snehal Rana, Parallax is a chilling descent into simulated consciousness, pattern recognition, and identity collapse. If you've ever questioned the boundary between self and system, this story will take you to its limit-and wait there.