Zvezda

They crashed into the darkest place on the Moon. Something down there has been waiting for the heat.

The far side of the Moon. A crater two kilometres deep that hasn't seen sunlight in two billion years. When the lander Selene is fooled by a false radar return and comes down hard on the crater floor, its five surviving crew are left with a broken ship, no voice to Earth and nine days of air.

Then the radio picks up a slow analogue pulse coming from the mouth of a lava tube across the crater.

Behind it they find Zvezda-3: a Soviet base that was never meant to exist, sealed in 1981. There are bunks, a galley and a reactor that could keep them alive until help comes. There are doors welded shut from the outside. And there are the cosmonauts, frozen where they fell, their bodies changed in ways no cold could explain.

To survive, Commander Kate Mercer and her crew must bring the base back to life. But the warmth is waking the things in the ice. And engineer Yelena Sorokina has just found her grandfather's name on the base's personnel board, two years after the date the Soviet Union said he died.

There is one way home: a forty-five-year-old Soviet capsule with three seats. And Earth may not want them back.

Zvezda is a relentless survival horror in the tradition of Alien and The Thing.