Cold Eternity: The new sci-fi horror for fans of ALIEN
Sep 2025 · Random House
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From the Queen of Space Horror comes a terrifying, dread-filled nightmare perfect for fans of Ridley Scott's Alien franchise.
'This slice of space horror will be just the ticket for the Halloween season' New Scientist, best new science fiction books of October
'So well done and creepy, with a twist that will shock you!' Hildur Knútsdóttir
'The S.A. Barnes Creature Feature we've all been waiting for! Tense, nasty, and melancholic' Caitlin Starling
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Halley Zwick is on the run.
Exposing an interplanetary conspiracy should have brought justice. Instead, it’s brought Halley nothing but a target on her back. With nowhere left to turn, she boards a relic of the past: Elysian Fields, a drifting crypt in deep space.
Once hailed as humanity’s answer to death itself, Elysian Fields was trillionaire Zale Winfield’s promise to Earth’s elite — cryo-sleep until medicine caught up with mortality. But that future never came. The program was abandoned. The barge has floated dark and silent for over a century.
Or so Halley thought.
The moment she steps aboard, something feels wrong. The silence isn’t empty—it’s watching. Shadows fall across corridors. Scratching claws echo in the vents. Whispers bleed from the walls. Something is crawling, slithering, waking.
As Halley descends into the heart of the ship, paranoia blurs into terror. The Elysian dead may not be sleeping—and what woke them is hungry...
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Readers love Cold Eternity
'The best Barnes book yet'
'Just the right amount of horror'
'Creepy and atmospheric'
'I was on the edge at all times'
✰✰✰✰✰
'This slice of space horror will be just the ticket for the Halloween season' New Scientist, best new science fiction books of October
'So well done and creepy, with a twist that will shock you!' Hildur Knútsdóttir
'The S.A. Barnes Creature Feature we've all been waiting for! Tense, nasty, and melancholic' Caitlin Starling
_________
Halley Zwick is on the run.
Exposing an interplanetary conspiracy should have brought justice. Instead, it’s brought Halley nothing but a target on her back. With nowhere left to turn, she boards a relic of the past: Elysian Fields, a drifting crypt in deep space.
Once hailed as humanity’s answer to death itself, Elysian Fields was trillionaire Zale Winfield’s promise to Earth’s elite — cryo-sleep until medicine caught up with mortality. But that future never came. The program was abandoned. The barge has floated dark and silent for over a century.
Or so Halley thought.
The moment she steps aboard, something feels wrong. The silence isn’t empty—it’s watching. Shadows fall across corridors. Scratching claws echo in the vents. Whispers bleed from the walls. Something is crawling, slithering, waking.
As Halley descends into the heart of the ship, paranoia blurs into terror. The Elysian dead may not be sleeping—and what woke them is hungry...
_________
Readers love Cold Eternity
'The best Barnes book yet'
'Just the right amount of horror'
'Creepy and atmospheric'
'I was on the edge at all times'
✰✰✰✰✰
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About the author
S.A. BARNES works in a high school library by day, recommending reads, talking with students, and removing the occasional forgotten cheese-stick-as-bookmark. The author has published numerous novels across different genres, with Dead Silence, Ghost Station and Cold Eternity published under her S. A. Barnes moniker.
Barnes lives in Illinois with more dogs and books than is advisable and a very patient spouse.
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