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The Ghost Line is a haunting science fiction story about the Titanic of the stars by debut authors Andrew Neil Gray and J. S. Herbison that Lawrence M. Schoen calls "a delicious rush of the future and the past." The Martian Queen was the Titanic of the stars before it was decommissioned, set to drift back and forth between Earth and Mars on the off-chance that reclaiming it ever became profitable for the owners. For Saga and her husband Michel the cruise ship represents a massive payday. Hacking and stealing the ship could earn them enough to settle down, have children, and pay for the treatments to save Saga’s mother’s life. But the Martian Queen is much more than their employer has told them. In the twenty years since it was abandoned, something strange and dangerous has come to reside in the decadent vessel. Saga feels herself being drawn into a spider’s web, and must navigate the traps and lures of an awakening intelligence if she wants to go home again. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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I enjoy a good ghost story, but while there are plenty of good haunted house stories out there, it's not often that I encounter a good haunted spaceship stories. Fortunately, The Ghost Line is a good read - not because it has great jump scares or a truly horrific ghost (or monster, or whatever), but because it shows us that sometimes, the most terrifying ghosts of all are the ghosts of our past.
One caveat: I thought the characters were a little bland. I think that, given enough time and room to grow (as in: if they were given an entire novel's worth of development), I think they would've all been awesome, but as it stands it feels like they didn't stand out as much as I would like them to. This is especially true with Wei: I like her a lot as a character (though not as a person), and I would have loved to really see where she could have gone, if she'd been given enough story-room to grow.