Deep Freeze

by Zach Hughes

When their retired parents disappear in a space tug, David, Ruth, Josh, Sheba, and Sarah set out to find them and discover a millennia-old alien space trap. Original.

Genres: Science Fiction

320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published November 1, 1992

About the author

Zach Hughes is a pseudonym of American writer Hugh Zachary.

Reviews

[Lianne Burwell · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is set in the same world as Mother Lode, and is fairly similar in theme. A pair of retirees buy a space ship and go touring, only to stumble on something dangerous and disappear. Their children, bit by bit, go looking for them, possibly lured by outside forces. *Alien* forces.

For such a small SF novel with a limited cast, this book has an incredibly high body count, with people killed in gruesome ways. I also found myself rolling my eyes at how the ultimate hero is intensely conservative, which is a political mindset that I do not belong to. I get the feeling that a bit of the author's politics were bleeding in, which makes it a little less seamless than it should be.

But all in all it was a nice quick read, and it held up well over the years since I originally read it when it came out nearly twenty years ago.

[Trevor McGuire · Rating 3 out of 5]

The second half was downright good with some real novel ideas, but the weird and abrupt incest subplot was really distracting.