Adam Christophers dazzling first novel Empire State was named the Best Book of by SciFi Now magazine Now he explores new dimensions of time and space in The Burning DarkBack in the day Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland had led the Fleet into battle against an implacable machine intelligence capable of devouring entire worlds But after saving a planet and getting a bum robot knee in the process he finds himself relegated to one of the most remote backwaters in Fleetspace to oversee the decommissioning of a semi-deserted space station well past its use-by dateBut all is not well aboard the U-Star Coast City The stations reclusive Commandant is nowhere to be seen leaving Cleveland to deal with a hostile crew on his own Persistent malfunctions plague the stations systems while interference from a toxic purple star makes even ordinary communications problematic Alien shadows and whispers seem to haunt the lonely corridors and airlocks fraying the nerves of everyone aboardIsolated and friendless Cleveland reaches out to the universe via an old-fashioned space radio only to tune in to a strange enigmatic signal a womans voice that seems to echo across a thousand light-years of space But is the transmission just a random bit of static from the past--or a warning of an undying menace beyond mortal comprehensionBuilds tension expertly Claustrophobic in mood but with the scope of great space opera this is SF you will want to read with the light on--Library Journal starred review on The Burning Dark.
