Here is a list of 6 Super Dark Science Fiction Books.
Alien by Alan Dean Foster
From the blurb:
The crew of the spaceship Nostromo is awakened from cryogenic sleep to investigate a mysterious alien transmission. On a nearby planet they discover a derelict craft, and a chamber filled with eggs… thousands of them, stretching as far as the eye can see.…
Blindsight (Firefall, #1) by Peter Watts
From the blurb:
Two months since the stars fell…
Two months of silence, while a world held its breath.
Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune’s orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. …
Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) by Alastair Reynolds
From the blurb:
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something wiped out the Amarantin. For the human colonists now settling the Amarantin homeworld Resurgam, it’s of little more than academic interest, even after the discovery of a long-hidden, almost perfect Amarantin city and a colossal statue of a winged Amarantin.…
Horus Rising (The Horus Heresy, #1) by Dan Abnett
From the blurb:
Under the benevolent leadership of the Immortal Emperor the Imperium of Man has stretched out across the galaxy. On the eve of victory, the Emperor leaves the front lines, entrusting the great crusade to his favorite son, Horus.…
Dead Space: Martyr (Dead Space, #1) by B.K. Evenson
From the blurb:
We have seen the future. A universe cursed with life after death. It all started deep beneath the Yucatan peninsula, where an archaeological discovery took us into a new age, bringing us face-to-face with our origins and destiny…
Winter Tide (The Innsmouth Legacy, 1) by Ruthanna Emrys
From the blurb:
After attacking Devil’s Reef in 1928, the U.S. government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them to the desert, far from their ocean, their Deep One ancestors, and their sleeping god Cthulhu. Only Aphra and Caleb Marsh survived the camps, and they emerged without a past or a future.…
