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|title=The Burning Dark

|sort=Burning Dark, The

|publisher=Titan Books

|date=March 2014

|website=http://www.adamchristopher.co.uk/

|summary=In space, no one can hear you scream and for the skeleton crew of the U-Star Coast City this is redundant anyway as no one cares if they do. 'The Burning Dark' is a science fiction novel that blends a well realised world with horror and the paranormal.

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In space, no one can hear you scream and for the skeleton crew of the U-Star Coast City this is redundant anyway as no one cares if they do. Captain Abraham Idaho Cleveland is about to start early retirement, but he is given one last job overseeing the dismantling of this space station that orbits a forbidding star that gives off an eerie radiation. With only a couple of hundred people left on the massive station, it is pretty quiet. This makes it easier to hear the things going bump in the night – a night that continues 24 hours.

What I took away from ‘The Burning Dark’ was a sense of time and place. ‘The Spider Wars’ is certainly somewhere I would want to read about again and the character of Cleveland was great. The actual plot and use of shock horror did not work as well as the world building, but this should not stop science fiction and horror lovers checking out the novel. There is more to come from Captain Cleveland and I for one am looking forward to a different style of adventure set in ‘The Spider Wars’ universe.

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