Can’t Wait Wednesday: Cold Eternity by S.A. Barnes

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to share upcoming book releases that we’re excited about! This meme is based on Waiting on Wednesday, which was created and hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

While I don’t read a great deal of either science fiction or horror, I can’t resist a good horror story set on a defunct spaceship. Something about the cold metal halls and the threat of the unknown creeping through air ducts and maintenance shafts gives me the chills, but in a good way. Cold Eternity promises exactly this and it’s definitely on my spring reading list. The real question is, do I choose print/ebook or audiobook? Cold Eternity will be released April 8, 2025.


Cold Eternity, the newest space horror novel from the author of Dead Silence and Ghost Station, blends the dystopian dread of Severance with the catastrophic approach to AI from M3gan.

Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge housing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth’s most wealthy citizens. The ship and its cryo program are long defunct, but Halley starts to think she sees figures crawling in the hallways, and there’s a constant scraping, slithering, and rattling echoing in the vents. It’s not long before Halley realizes she may have gotten herself trapped in an even more dangerous situation than the one she was running from….

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