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Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best First Novel! "This claustrophobic, horror-leaning tour de force is highly recommended for fans of Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation and Andy Weir's The Martian." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) The thrilling, atmospheric debut from the author of The Death of Jane Lawrence, a novel with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping dread of Annihilation, in which a caver on a foreign planet finds herself on a terrifying psychological and emotional journey for survival. When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she'd be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. She also thought that the fat paycheck—enough to get her off-planet and on the trail of her mother—meant she'd get a skilled surface team, monitoring her suit and environment, keeping her safe. Keeping her sane. Instead, she got Em. Em sees nothing wrong with controlling Gyre's body with drugs or withholding critical information to "ensure the smooth operation" of her expedition. Em knows all about Gyre's falsified credentials, and has no qualms using them as a leash—and a lash. And Em has se
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Starling, Caitlin
- Publisher
- Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780062846907
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Thriller, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.1 / 5 (1,515 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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