He thought he was alone on this mission, but AI tells him there is another person onboard-a man by the name of Kodiak, who is strangely opposed to unlocking his half of the ship for company.
Soon after, Ambrose wakes from a coma on a sentient ship, with no memory of the launch. When she sends out a distress signal, her brother Ambrose is the astronaut chosen to rescue her. Minerva Cusk was the first human sent out to colonize Saturn’s moon, Titan.
The protagonists-Ambrose and Kodiak-stole my heart from the get-go with their affable banter this was an experience beyond words (and one I’d kill to see adapted into a movie!) An unexpectedly introspective tale balancing humour and unimaginable grief-pain with great payoff. The Darkness Outside Us was the most breathtaking sci-fi I’ve read all year. I was really affected by this book and I've been telling people to read it, but I'm absolutely mystified by the marketing and the choices made around it. I wish Tor.com or literally anyone in the funky-yet-mainstream speculative fiction space had picked this up, because that would have been a better home for it. We're past the historical moment (aka until like 2015) when all genre fiction had to be YA or face immediate oblivion. I could see this book getting traction among adult sci-fi audiences and I hope it finds those folks, but it has no relationship to YA except for the fact that the protagonists are, for no real reason, 17. This is a twisty survival drama, a harrowing story about life and death and the meaning of humanity, and it is to its detriment that it was sold as YA. I'm not going to talk too much about the plot because it's worth reading with as little upfront info as possible, but believe me when I say the romance is basically the least important aspect of this book. Love might be the only way to survive.Based on the cover and the description, I assumed this was going to be some kind of YA finnpoe/stucky ripoff space romance. especially once they discover what they are truly up against. In order to survive the ship's secrets, Ambrose and Kodiak will need to work together and learn to trust each other. But nothing will stop Ambrose from making his mission succeed-not when he's rescuing his own sister.
There's more that doesn't add up: evidence indicates strangers have been on board, the ship's operating system is voiced by his mother, and his handsome, brooding shipmate has barricaded himself away. Sworn enemies sent on the same rescue mission.Īmbrose wakes up on the Coordinated Endeavor with no memory of a launch.
They Both Die at the End meets The Loneliest Girl in the Universe in this mind-bending sci-fi mystery and tender love story about two boys aboard a spaceship sent on a rescue mission, from two-time National Book Award finalist Eliot Schrefer.
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