Booklog 27/2019 - Adrian Tchaikovsky: Walking to Aldebaran

[jacey]

Due to be published by Solaris, 28^th May 2019.
This advance review copy from Netgalley.

A science fiction/horror novella. When a strange artefact, looking like a giant frog-face, appears on the farthest edge of our solar system a combined expedition is sent to investigate. Inside, there's an atmosphere and a maze of tunnels. What is its purpose? Does it link to other stars, or maybe even to other galaxies or even universes? One lone astronaut, Gary Rendell, survives and this is his story. It's told in the present, alternating with chapters of the past and how he got to be wandering around the maze of weirdness and a somewhat altered post-human state.

"I got lucky; when a probe exploring the Oort Cloud found a strange alien rock and an international team of scientists was put together to go and look at it, I made the draw. Now I’m lost, and alone, and scared, and there’s something horrible in here."

A beautifully written and fascinating examination of one human in impossible circumstances, doing what he needs to do to survive.