“Falling Dark” by Tom Lloyd (2021)

“A level tone lost in the dark.”

There’s no telling what we’ll find out in the darkest corners of the universe when (or if) humanity ever gets there. Tom Lloyd, however, has an idea, and it’s not necessarily as comforting as others might like.

In a distance future where humanity is a multi-planetary species, Captain Song leads her crew on a mission which becomes interrupted by a find unlike any other. Hanging just above the atmosphere of a distant planet is an enormous spaceship, inert and unlik...