Ten Little Spacers

Ten strangers. A dead station. A nursery rhyme counting down to zero.

The year is 2487. Ten people receive invitations to Eclipse Point, a decommissioned mining station orbiting a lifeless planet at the edge of colonized space. Their host, the mysterious U.N. Owen, promises rest, work, or reunion. None of them have met their host. All of them have secrets.

On the first night, a recorded voice accuses each guest of a killing they were never punished for. Before the shock can settle, the first guest is dead, poisoned at dinner, and a holographic figure vanishes from the display in the common area. Ten little spacers, standing in a row. Now there are nine.

Communications are jammed. The shuttle is gone. The nearest help is three weeks away. And the deaths keep coming, each one matching, with terrible precision, the next line of a nursery rhyme hanging in every cabin on the station.

As suspicion turns inward and alliances collapse, the survivors realize the killer is not hiding in the station's corridors. The killer is sitting at the dinner table.

A sci-fi reimagining of the greatest locked-room mystery ever written, Ten Little Spacers transplants Agatha Christie's masterpiece to the cold vacuum of deep space, where there is no island, no storm, and no escape. Only the rhyme. Only the countdown. Only the dark.

For fans of Agatha Christie, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and Blake Crouch.

No one is innocent. No one is safe. And when the last holographic figure disappears, none remain.