Paradise-1
By (Author) David Wellington
Little, Brown Book Group
Orbit
13th June 2023
6th April 2023
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
813.6
Paperback
704
Width 126mm, Height 198mm, Spine 36mm
460g
'Wellington skillfully combines hard sci-fi worldbuilding with tense mystery . . . Readers will be on the edges of their seats' Publishers Weekly (starred review)
WELCOME TO PARADISEParadise-1. Earth's first deep space colony. For thousands of colonists, it was an opportunity for a new life. Until it went dark. No communication has been received from the colony for months. It falls to Firewatch Agent Alexandra Petrova and the crew of the Artemis to investigate.What they find is more horrifying than they could have imagined.Paradise-1 begins a terrifying new trilogy of survival and exploration in deep space, from Clarke Award-nominated author David Wellington.'A captivating, eerie story with such engaging characters you won't want to say goodbye at the end' S. A. Barnes, author of Dead Silence'Intensely creepy worldbuilding' Library JournalWellington skillfully combines hard sci-fi worldbuilding with tense mystery for a superior space thriller that never flags . . . Wellington excels at vivid descriptions, which further enhance the clever plot. Readers will be on the edges of their seats * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *
A captivating, eerie story with such engaging characters you won't want to say goodbye at the end. I don't remember the last time I loved a team this much! * S. A. Barnes *
As Wellington expertly balances a steady stream of increasingly dire action sequences, intensely creepy worldbuilding, satisfying character development, and an original monster stalking the protagonists, readers will be invested in the plot while coming to truly care about the characters along the way * Library Journal *
David Wellington is an acclaimed author who has previously published over twenty novels in different genres. His novel The Last Astronaut was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.