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• Alien

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  A modern classic, Alien blends science fiction, horror and bleak poetry into a seamless whole

• Dead Silence

  Barnes, S. A.,

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  The crew of Claire Kovalik’s salvage ship are about to complete their last mission when they hit paydirt: they find the Aurora. The Aurora was a luxury space cruise liner that went missing two decades ago. Now it’s floating on the outer rim of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Murders of Molly Southbourne

  Thompson, Tade,

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  The Molly Southbourne series starts off with a young girl who has big problems. If Molly ever sheds a drop of blood, that blood turns into a new version of her — and it tries to murder her. As you can imagine, it’s hard to go through life without…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Salvation Day

  Wallace, Kali,

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  The immense exploration ship House of Wisdom was abandoned by Earth years ago in the wake of the devastation wrought by a deadly virus that killed all but one of the crew on board. The ship sits dark and empty—but Zahra and her people intend to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Remina

  Itō, Junji, 1963-

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  A Japanese take on cosmic horror! A new planet appears at the edge of the solar system, baffling researchers and most of humanity as the newly-named Remina is visible to all. This would be a neat scientific discovery except Remina is steadily making…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blindsight

  Watts, Peter, 1958-

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  When 22nd century humanity becomes aware of a huge alien ship on the edge of the solar system, the ship Theseus is sent to investigate. The crew includes a sociopathic vampire and a linguist called the Gang of Four who has been surgically rendered a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Thing

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  Grimmer and more terrifying than the 1950s take, John Carpenter's The Thing is a tense sci-fi thriller rife with compelling tension and some remarkable make-up effects

• The Luminous Dead

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  Starling, Caitlin,

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  A not-so-honest woman lies on her resume to get a job mapping unexplored cave systems on a distant planet, all guided in a suit that restricts her movements and is kept going by a handler above ground. This is isolation horror and paranoia at its…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Leech

  Ennes, Hiron,

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  Leech gives us the paranoia of “the monster could be anyone” combined with a cold, unfeeling medical school for a setting. There’s something gothic and dreadful about the entire mood of the book, but that’s before the kill count racks up and Ennes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Nightflyers

  Martin, George R. R.,

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  Credited with resurrecting Martin’s moribund pre-A Game of Thrones writing career in the 1980s, this novella (recently turned into a TV series on Syfy) is enjoying a resurgence in the wake of his heightened profile. And good thing, because it’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• High Life

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  Claire Denis' High Life stars Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, and Mia Goth. The plot follows a group of criminals sent on a space mission while unknowingly participating in a series of questionable scientific experiments.

• A Quiet Place

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  John Krasinski's film, A Quiet Place, stars himself and his wife, Emily Blunt, as a couple raising a family in a post-apocalyptic world invaded by violent blind aliens with heightened hearing.

• Annihilation

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  Alex Garland's sci-fi masterpiece Annihilation is a certified modern classic. Oscar-winner Natalie Portman stars as Lena, a biology professor and army veteran who leads a special force inside "the Shimmer," a contaminated territory of mutated plants…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Annihilation

  VanderMeer, Jeff

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  Explore "the Shimmer" in its original form! No one comes back from Area X. Not fully, anyway. Mass suicide, betrayal: one by one, the expeditions fail. After the members of the 11th expedition come back, they all die of cancer. Now, it’s time for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Scourge Between Stars

  Brown, Ness,

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  As acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive as they limp back to Earth from their forebears’ failed colony on a distant planet. Faced with constant threats of starvation and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Tide

  Jones, K. C. (Kevin Charles), 1983-

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  Mike and Beth were strangers before the night of the meteor shower. Chance made them neighbors, a bottle of champagne brought them together, and a shared need for human connection sparked something more. Following their drunken and desperate…Read moreRead more of this annotation