Beschrijving
When Captain Aris Thorne and her senior crew awaken decades too early aboard the colony ship Odyssey, they expect to find a thriving mission en route to a new Earth. Instead, they emerge into a waking nightmare: systems failing, corridors choked with alien crystal growths, and 5,000 colonists still in cryosleep—helpless.
As Chief Engineer Anya Petrova fights to keep the ship from tearing itself apart, Dr. Elias Vance discovers a biological horror infecting the crew—mutations threaded with impossible, living silica. Security Chief Kaelen Voss, scarred by war, begins to unravel under the pressure of an invisible, insidious enemy: a signal from the planet below that sings with beauty, and madness.
The truth is worse than betrayal—it’s a trap.
The signal is not a call for help. It’s a lure. Beneath the surface of Proxima b lies an ancient intelligence: the Silica Sirens, crystalline entities who feed on sentience, weaving the minds of entire civilizations into their eternal monuments of agony. The Odyssey has drifted into their song.
Hope becomes a brutal calculus. To survive, the crew must destroy what remains of their ship, silence the voices of their dead, and make an unthinkable sacrifice: jettison thousands of lives to keep the infection from spreading.
Four survivors escape the wreckage, broken in body and spirit—fleeing into the dark with a sliver of alien crystal still pulsing aboard. The Sirens are behind them. But not gone.
In Starship One-Way, experience a masterfully tense descent into isolation, moral collapse, and cosmic dread. A bleak and brilliant thriller where hope is fragile, sanity is a resource, and sometimes escape is only the beginning of the horror.