HomeAdrift
by Soheil Mirchi
GENRE: Science Fiction
Blurb:
How far can you go before the silence breaks you?
Commander Solene Ellis has left Earth behind forever. Now she drifts through the void aboard the colony ship Nia Kvara, watching over 100,000 colonists in hibernation. Only Ava, the ship’s AI, keeps her company.
The voyage spans 3,000 years, but for Solene, time comes in fragments—fleeting moments of wakefulness between long, frozen sleeps. Hours blur into decades. Memories unravel. In the stillness, she begins to lose track not only of time, but of herself.
And solitude in deep space doesn’t stay quiet for long. Whispers echo where no one should be. Shadows shift just beyond her vision. A mysterious vessel appears in the void. Even Ava starts to act… strangely.
As reality fractures, Solene must face a terrifying question: is something out there hunting them—or has her own mind become the true threat?
For readers of literary science fiction, space horror, and character-driven psychological drama, HomeAdrift is a story of isolation, survival, and what it means to find home when there's nowhere left to go.
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Excerpt:
I’m floating, or maybe I’m not. It’s impossible to tell. There’s no sensation of movement, no whisper of air against skin, no gentle tug of gravity to anchor my existence. Here, in this place—or non-place— there is only the void. I open my eyes, or at least I think I do. But there’s no change, no shift in perception. No flicker of shadow or glimmer of light. It’s a uniform nothingness that stretches into infinity. There’s a comfort in this, a release from the burdens of identity and existence, the weightless freedom from being. Here, there’s no past to regret, no future to fear, no present to endure. There’s no sorrow, no joy, no pain—no feelings to feel. I am the void, and the void is me.
My Review:
HomeAdrift unfolds as a gradual tale that takes years to unveil its mysteries, maintaining a sense of tension throughout the narrative. It is an incredibly engaging story that keeps you intrigued, constantly pondering what is happening and when the characters will arrive at their goal.
Commander Solene Ellis is roused every 300 years by Ava, an artificial intelligence, to assess the condition of the ship and the crew aboard the colony vessel Nia Kvara. Over the centuries, various peculiar events have occurred, leaving behind a puzzle waiting to be solved.
Solene finds herself in solitude, accompanied only by Ava, and with all the bizarre happenings, it often raises questions about what is genuine and what is merely a figment of her imagination. Is everything truly happening, or is Solene’s mind deceiving her?
Is someone tailing them? Have extraterrestrials infiltrated their vessel during the periods Solene was in slumber, unbeknownst to Ava? The occurrences provoke thoughts about how such phenomena could transpire in the vastness of space on a ship where everyone is in cryogenic sleep.
I mean, how can a butterfly manifest aboard a ship where none existed initially without the intervention of someone or something on a vessel that has been sealed for thousands of years, give or take a few?
The enigma kept me speculating from one page to the next, eager to uncover the truth. HomeAdrift is a narrative that will linger in your mind for many years for various reasons.
I wholeheartedly recommend HomeAdrift to all enthusiasts of science fiction! Get your hands on a copy of HomeAdrift today!
About the Author:
The world is overwhelming. The lives we chase, the norms we follow, the time we waste, and the dreams we forget. I write to process. To understand. To make sense of it all.
I write because I run into walls—again and again. Walls that stop me from speaking, from connecting.
So I write. It's how I find my way through.
My debut novel, HomeAdrift, is a story of isolation, identity, and survival—told through the lens of space, but rooted deeply in the human need for home.
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