12 new SFF books to put on your summer reading list this July
By Lacy Baugher
Salvation Day – Kali Wallace
Another entry in the long line of science-fiction stories that combine space and some sort of unidentified monster, Kali Wallace’s Salvation Day basically sounds terrifying from the jump.
In this fast-paced, nail-biting thriller, a lethal virus is awoken on an abandoned spaceship. And everyone dies. Okay, maybe – probably – everyone doesn’t die. But it seems like a good idea for us all to get ready for a lot of death and gore, made roughly a thousand times worse by the fact that it’s all going to take place in a tiny, enclosed space and freak anyone who is remotely claustrophobic (i.e. me) out.
"Zahra knew every detail of the plan. House of Wisdom, a massive exploration vessel, had been abandoned by the government of Earth a decade earlier, when a deadly virus broke out and killed everyone on board in a matter of hours. But now it could belong to her people if they were bold enough to take it. All they needed to do was kidnap Jaswinder Bhattacharya—the sole survivor of the tragedy, and the last person whose genetic signature would allow entry to the spaceship. But what Zahra and her crew could not know was what waited for them on the ship—a terrifying secret buried by the government. A threat to all of humanity that lay sleeping alongside the orbiting dead. And then they woke it up."
So, you know, that definitely doesn’t sound ominous at all.
Salvation Day is available on July 9.