NeutralI found a copy of this early on pre-book pilled and I read it and I found it sort of middling, but it is a standout for being a science fiction horror a proper science fiction horror book of which there are not many.
The Dark Between the Stars (1981)
Others: Neutral Someday. Tomorrow. When Earth fails man and man leaves Earth behind, the awesomeness is waiting Out There. Empty beyond all imagining, vast beyond all reckoning, as deep as Time and twice as cold, The Dark between the stars. Here, collected for the first time, are the most incredible and terrifying voyages of the acclaimed master of SF adventure. Voyages to the center of a universe dark with terror. And Beyond.
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- 9780425042915
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- 207 pages
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