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Review: Infinite Dark

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"If there was another way, I would have tried it! But nothing can save us ... we weren't meant to be saved." The universe has ended. Entropic decay - a wave of darkness destroying reality itself - swept through all of space, annihilating everything in its path. Two thousand human survivors live in a huge space station, the Orpheus , protected by a pseudoreality field. Outside is absolute nothingness: not the void of empty space but a total absence of existence. Security Director Deva Karrell is haunted by the cosmic apocalypse that drove the remnants of humanity to this final oasis, and is shocked when the Orpheus turns out to be not the safe haven it was meant to be. In a deactivated district of the vast station a dead body is uncovered; a scientist brutally murdered, the crime scene covered in strange, rune-like symbols... Infinite Dark by writer Ryan Cady and artist Andrea Mutti is a sci-fi/horror drama which exploits the primal fears of the dark, the unknown and the ...

Review: Fallen Suns

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"They are real. They are coming. And they bring the end of your world with them." Earth is governed by two factions: Equilibrium and H.A.L.O., with an uneasy truce between them. Parminder Patel is a specialist in alien technology and is summoned to the Slingshot,  H.A.L.O.'s Breach Containment Facility, a fortress floating above Groom Lake, Nevada. The Slingshot contains a very unusual prisoner: Pharos the Lightbringer, an alien who arrived suddenly on Earth and killed many people before he was captured. H.A.L.O. intends to kill the intruder, but hope to gain some useful information from him before his execution. Given her area of expertise, Patel is the best candidate for the job of interrogator. Pharos - a hulking, red-skinned figure in exotic armour - turns out to be obligingly talkative. He tells Patel of his life on his home planet, where he was raised by farmers in a society of beings who have a unique relationship with plants. Using an intimate type of bonding, his...