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Dead Space: Martyr
by B.K. Evenson
I really love the idea of the marker as a virus of sorts.
A self-replicating entity that uses other intelligent life as a vector.
When I picked this book up, I was also obsessed with human's drive for purpose and divine meaning.
I was especially struck with how cult leaders (for example) can exploit this wish to touch the sublime, the desire for some higher purpose.
The marker, like a parasite, exploits this tendency in humans and makes them worship it.
I've also got a bit of a fable for cosmic horror and Lovecraft's writings, so I was pleasantly surprised when this felt quite similar.
Now, enough babbling about me and how I got here.
What about the book?
It did contain a bunch of harrowing and well written scenes from what I remember. And I really enjoy the descent into madness the book takes us on.
Sadly, the video game part drags the experience down (for me).
The militaristic setting that starts ?halfway? through the book isn't my jam.
Worse still, when at the end of the book we switch out psychological horror for tunnels of writhing flesh and a protagonist shooting necromorphs, I didn't really care anymore.
Plus, Altman, our protagonist, is not the most exciting character and the relationship to his girlfriend only really serves as a device to further the "marker" -plot.
I don't regret having read it though.
Good cosmic horror is hard to come by.
And if you don't mind some videogame-y parts in a book or are a huge dead space fan, this is probably for you!
For me, I still appreciated it's slower, more insidious parts and the creeping madness that eminates from the depth of Chicxulub.
If I ever went back to rereading it, I'd just stop halfway in-between, haha.
Or maybe even after the submarine coring test concludes.
A self-replicating entity that uses other intelligent life as a vector.
When I picked this book up, I was also obsessed with human's drive for purpose and divine meaning.
I was especially struck with how cult leaders (for example) can exploit this wish to touch the sublime, the desire for some higher purpose.
The marker, like a parasite, exploits this tendency in humans and makes them worship it.
I've also got a bit of a fable for cosmic horror and Lovecraft's writings, so I was pleasantly surprised when this felt quite similar.
Now, enough babbling about me and how I got here.
What about the book?
It did contain a bunch of harrowing and well written scenes from what I remember. And I really enjoy the descent into madness the book takes us on.
Sadly, the video game part drags the experience down (for me).
The militaristic setting that starts ?halfway? through the book isn't my jam.
Worse still, when at the end of the book we switch out psychological horror for tunnels of writhing flesh and a protagonist shooting necromorphs, I didn't really care anymore.
Plus, Altman, our protagonist, is not the most exciting character and the relationship to his girlfriend only really serves as a device to further the "marker" -plot.
I don't regret having read it though.
Good cosmic horror is hard to come by.
And if you don't mind some videogame-y parts in a book or are a huge dead space fan, this is probably for you!
For me, I still appreciated it's slower, more insidious parts and the creeping madness that eminates from the depth of Chicxulub.
If I ever went back to rereading it, I'd just stop halfway in-between, haha.
Or maybe even after the submarine coring test concludes.