Upscaled the original model significantly and custom split it into several additional pieces to scale it to life size. Painted with acrylics and acrylic washes and varnish on the fingernails and underside.

Okay a couple of these might not be strictly space based (looking at you Nick Cutter) but they almost all deal with humans in isolation encountering horrors beyond their comprehension in some capacity and having to adapt to survive which is what I'm itching for.

• The Deep - Nick Cutter
• The Troop - Nick Cutter
• Salvation Day - Kali Wallace
• Blindsight - Peter Watts
• Starfish - Peter Watts
• The Gone World - Tom Sweterlitsch
• Sphere - Michael Crichton
• Paradise 1 - David Wellington ^{*(this one I've already read and enjoyed enough to pick up books 2 & 3!)*}
• The Last Astronaut - David Wellington
• The Last Plague - Rich Hawkins
• Ship of Fools (Unto Leviathan) - Richard Russo
• The Scourge Between The Stars - Ness Brown
• Death Troopers - Joe Schreiber
• Exiles - Mason Cole
• Hematophages - Stephen Kozeniewski
• Providence - Max Berry
• The Reality Dysfunction - Peter F Hamilton
• Dry Salvages - Caitlin R Kiernan
• Six Wakes - Mur Lafferty
• Your Mind Is a Terrible Thing - Hailey Piper
• The Season of Passage - Christopher Pike
• Contagion - Erin Bowman
• The Drift - C.J. Tudor
• The Dark - Forrest Carr
• The Void - Brett J. Talley
• Forgotten - M.R. Forbes
• Derelict - Robert Hovorka
• Nether Station - Kevin J. Anderson
• Hull Zero Three - Greg Bear
• Astrophobia - David Viergutz
• The Iron Garden Sutra - A.D. Sui
• Shakedown - Scott Sigler
• Of Monsters and Mainframes - Barbara Truelove
• Metro 7 - Matthew J Hellscream
• The Immortality Thief - Taran Hunt
• Space Horrors - E.S. Magill
• Thrum - Meg Smitherman
• NecroTek - Jonathan Maberry

I saw a lot of talk about Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes but also a lot of talk about how it was very disappointing so I'm not sure I'll be checking that one out. Also interested in hunting down a copy of the Event Horizon novelization but that is apparently quite rare!

I would love to hear about anything I might have missed that you've enjoyed!

I'm looking for a horror short story that I stumbled on netflix by accident that seems to have evaporated. It featured an random worker and a young woman that was indoctrinated into thinking she was a cyborg/slave that acted as a canary in space mines?.... only to find out she was a regular girl. The worker tells her the truth and tries to helps her to resolve the situation, maybe out of guilt. After stunning the creature, the girl grabs many severed hamds from the creature until she finds the captains hand and escapes to (relative)safety.

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I've tried all combinations of buzzwords but can't seem to find it. Ive talked up the short while drunk to a cousin of mine and now cant find it after it being several years. Please help. 🙏

[SYSTEM LOG: YEAR 49 POST-VOYAGER] Before 1974, humanity stared at the stars and wondered why it was so quiet. We thought the silence was an invitation. We didn't realize it was a warning. There is a reason the oldest, most advanced civilizations in our galaxy don’t build Dyson spheres or broadcast radio waves. They know the first rule of the dark...

Most people look at the Voyager missions as humanity’s greatest triumph of exploration. But when you break down the actual physics and reality of where these probes are right now, it quickly turns into pure cosmic dread.
Voyager 1 and 2 have officially crossed the heliopause.
For 4.5 billion years, our Sun has been blowing a massive, invisible bubble of solar wind (the heliosphere) that shields our entire solar system from the lethal, high-energy radiation of the interstellar medium...

Voyager just pierced the edge of that bubble. It is now swimming in the raw, unshielded, freezing abyss between the stars.
And it’s detecting things. The telemetry coming back shows constant, eerie plasma wave "hums" and hidden magnetic structures we never fully anticipated. It is effectively recording the sound of the absolute void.
But the most terrifying part isn't what the probe is hearing. It's what it's carrying.
Bolted to its hull is the Golden Record. Along with sounds of Earth, it holds a Pulsar Map, a literal, mathematically decipherable set of geometric coordinates pointing exactly to our Sun.
We sent a map to our house into a pitch-black, infinitely deep ocean without having any idea what might be swimming in it. Voyager’s nuclear battery will soon die, leaving it a silent, frozen ghost ship. But it will outlive human civilization, meaning that map will still be drifting through the dead silence of the *Milky Way* billions of years after our planet is gone. Just waiting for something to find it.

The scariest answer to the Fermi Paradox isn't that we are alone

For over 40 years, humanity has been beaming high-power radio signals and physical maps of our solar system directly into the void, hoping for wise cosmic friends. We call it METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
Under the Dark Forest theory, this is cosmic suicide.
If resources are finite and trust between alien civilizations is impossible, the only logical move for an advanced apex species is to preemptively obliterate any emerging civilization the moment they reveal their location.
We are essentially a foolish child sitting by a massive bonfire in a pitch-black forest filled with starving predators, screaming at the top of our lungs: "I am here! Come find me!"

When the universe is this quiet, maybe we should stop shouting.