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Talos

 

A quiet, eerie sci-fi novella about a ship that wakes before its crew.


  • A lost ship. A sleeping crew. A planet that breathes back.
  • Space is silent — until it isn’t.
  • Some dreams are not your own.

A deep-space research vessel drifts through an uncharted system.
Its crew wake to silence, their mission uncertain, their memories blurred.

Outside, the void moves in ways it shouldn’t.
Inside, the boundaries between faith, reason, and reality begin to erode.

As systems fail and trust fractures, the crew must confront what waits beyond the hull, and within themselves.

Talos is a quiet descent into isolation and belief, where the line between the human and the machine begins to blur.

What Talos is like

 

Tone & Atmosphere

  • quiet, eerie, dreamlike 
  • psychological rather than action-driven
  • claustrophobic, introspective
  • a sense of drifting between reality and hallucination
  • soft horror, not gore


Pacing

  • short but slow-building
  • a gradual slide into the uncanny
  • subtle reveals rather than explosive twists
     

Themes

  • consciousness and identity
  • memory as a fragile construct
  • loneliness in deep space
  • the fear of being observed
  • the hope of connection, even in impossible places
     

Style

  • immersive first-person tone
  • clean, sparse prose
  • a focus on mood and internal experience
  • “old-school sci-fi” influence (Clarke, Bradbury, Solaris…)

Who Talos will appeal to

 

Readers who enjoy:

  • quiet, eerie sci-fi
  • psychological horror without gore
  • stories like Solaris, Arrival, Moon, Annihilation, or Alien’s slow sections
  • short, atmospheric novellas they can read in one or two sittings
  • introspective, character-driven sci-fi
  • cosmic mystery without high-tech jargon
  • dreamlike or surreal storytelling

It’s ideal for readers who want something unsettling, emotional, and a little strange — the kind of story that lingers long after the last page.

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