5 Dark Sci-Fi Thrillers to Read While You’re Waiting for Severance Season 2
By Emily Hoang
If you’re like me, you’ll look for anything that will fill the void after a good season of a television series. For fans of Severance, who are waiting for the release of season two in January, take a look at some of these dark sci-fi thrillers to help hold you over. From idyllic islands to deep space, readers will be taken into worlds that’ll remind them of why they fell in love with Severance in the first place, whether it be for its characters or its dystopic world.
Adam Merkel, was a quiet, seemingly unremarkable man, who left his university professorship in Reno to teach middle school in Lovelock. He develops a tender, trusting friendship with one of his students, Sal Prentiss, a lonely sixth grader. Seven months after moving, Sal finds Adam’s body, charred beyond recognition, half a mile away from his uncle’s compound. Nora Wheaton, the middle school’s social studies teacher, sensed Adam’s kindred spirit and decides to delve into his past for clues to who killed him. She finds out that Sal might not only be the key to solving Adam’s murder, but her chance at the life she thought she lost.
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Logan Ramsay is slowly changing. First, everything just feels sharper, but before long, he knows something is happening to his brain. All his changes stem from his genome being hacked. He’s been targeted for this upgrade due to a horrific family legacy. But he’s only a small piece of a much larger plan, one that will inflict these changes on everyone—at a terrifying cost. With his new abilities, Logan’s the only person capable of stopping what’s coming.
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The world was destroyed by a fog that killed anyone it touched. On an idyllic island, one hundred and twenty-two villagers and three scientists are living in harmony. Life turns upside down when one of the scientists is found brutally stabbed to death. They learn that the murder triggered a lowering of the security system, the only thing that was keeping the fog out. The security system also wiped everyone’s memories of the previous night, which means someone is a murderer and they don’t even know it. The islanders will have 107 hours to solve the murder before the fog smothers the island.
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Ami awakes from years in stasis to find she’s at the edges of deep space, and the only surviving member of her crew. Utterly alone and unable to contact Earth, she sends out a distress beacon, not expecting a response. When she gets one from a being who calls himself Dorian, she’s welcomed onto his ship as he offers his assistance in any way he can. But nothing on Dorian’s ship is as it seems. And as Ami tries to navigate the maze of hallways and first contact with this alien being, a deep hum begins to resonate, haunting her, as if the ship itself is whispering to her.
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Hadleigh Keene passed away on the road leading away from Hollyhock Asylum. Her sister Morgan blames herself. After a year of no answers, Morgan decides to create a false identity and checks herself into the asylum. She discovers that Hollyhock has peculiar routines and is soon beset by strange episodes. As Morgan’s identity unravels and the persona she’s created takes a life of it’s own, Morgan begins to question whether she’s losing more than just her memory.
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