Nether Station
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Scott Brick
About this listen
From New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson comes Nether Station, a thrilling mix of epic science fiction and Lovecraftian horror.
Space is vast. Space is full of wonders. Space is terrifying.
In the darkest part of the solar system lies a wormhole. Nether.
Astrophysicist Cammie Skoura has joined the first research team traveling to the Nether anomaly, eager to understand the mechanics of the wormhole and to explore its possibilities as a shortcut to Alpha Centauri.
But another race of ancient beings has already been here—an impossibly long time ago—leaving remnants of their vast complexes and gigantic temples built for horrific beings beyond comprehension.
What dangers did those elder races find in the hidden corners of spacetime?
What did they unleash?
And what remains?
Now, Cammie and the crew of Nether Station must find the answers—before the darkest part of the cosmos swallows them up …
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Don’t get me wrong; it’s perfectly serviceable and enjoyable as a fairly mild Lovecraftian space horror, it’s just really predictable and surprisingly unimaginative. The author moves the pieces around in a lacklustre fashion, so that literally nothing that happens is a surprise. The Lovecraftian elements seem tacked on and superficial, as if Anderson had read a Wikipedia article on the Cthulhu mythos, not really understood the themes, and borrowed a few names for his story. It’s Lovecraft-lite. Anderson can’t quite bring himself to fully embrace the bleak existential nihilism that lies at the heart of the Lovecraftian mythos, instead borrowing some of its trappings to dress up his fairly toothless outer space spookhouse.
Though the story is supposed to be relatively near-future, virtually all the tech is your standard Sci-Fi gear, including artificial gravity of the Star Trek variety, and little sense of the realities of space travel. Compare it to the ALIEN universe, where the tech feels very real, even though it includes FTL travel!
One thing the story does do rather well is its portrayal of a neurodivergent character who is very clearly on the autism spectrum and struggles with interpreting and understanding the behaviour of others. Being neurospicy myself, I think Anderson actually takes a pretty good swing at this, and does it without being patronising or preachy.
The thing that annoys me about this is that Anderson is capable of far better work, and the story idea is great. It’s just that it could have been much better if he hadn’t been afraid to take the training wheels off.
Pedestrian Lovecraftian Space Horror
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I really didn't enjoy the narration
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Dreadful
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Seemed to be a by the numbers book, saved by Scott Bricks narration
Great narration
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