Zombies, Vampires, Revenants: David Wellington

About Erebus 13

The crew of the Artemis has escaped the nightmare of Paradise-1, but at great cost.

Parker is gone. Petrova’s past continues to haunt her. Worst of all, Erebus—a timeless entity of pure darkness—has been released from its prison.

Now it’s headed for Earth.

Petrova must rally her crew for one final mission. Somehow, they must find a way to unite the disparate factions of the solar system—the United Earth Government, the Lunar colonies, and the outer planets—and find a way to stop Erebus.

The fate of humanity—and the galaxy—is in their hands.

The Red Space Trilogy

I have a confession to make. I LOVE sci-fi horror. I love Alien, Event Horizon, Dead Space by S.A. Barnes, and The Red Space books by David Wellington.

Each book captures a unique aspect of science fiction horror.

Paradise 1 sees our entrepid astronauts forced on a mission to a colony that has been out of contact for a year. On their way to Paradise 1, their ship is destroyed. Space itself is the horror element in book 1. The kenophobia is amped up here. I love first books because we get to know our characters and explore the world before it all goes to shit.

Revenant X, book 2, follows our four characters as they try to deal with being stuck on Paradise 1. This book is far more creature feature than kenophobia horror. We are introduced to the revenants, reanimated bodies of the previous colony members. There is a desperation of not just isolation, but of body horror and sleep deprivation.

Erebus 13 is back at Earth. We are brought to the destruction of Earth, the hollow shell of a planet that the group desperately wanted to save. The revenants have destroyed cities and killed millions. The horror of book 3 is the reality that they have failed. This book seems to be asking “what do you do after failure?”

I really enjoyed these books. They gave me isolation space horror, but each book also delivers the creature-feature horror of zombies, emotional and life sucking vampiric people.

Petrova is the person I want to be in the horror movie, even though I know it isn’t healthy.

Zhang is the best representation of depression that I have ever read. Particularily in book 3.

Rapscalion is the true hero.