<b>Chilling story of a lost astronaut on an alien artefact, struggling to find his way home even as the world around him transforms his body and mind.</b><br><br><b>I’m lost. I’m scared. And there’s something horrible in here.</b><br><br>My name is Gary Rendell. I’m an astronaut. When they asked me as a kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said, “astronaut, please!” I dreamed astronaut, I worked astronaut, I studied astronaut. <br><br>I got lucky; when a probe exploring the Oort Cloud found a strange alien rock and an international team of scientists was put together to go and look at it, I made the draw.<br><br>I got even luckier. When disaster hit and our team was split up, scattered through the endless cold tunnels, I somehow survived.<br><br>Now I’m lost, and alone, and scared, and there’s something horrible in here.Lucky me.<br><br>Lucky, lucky, lucky.<br><br>A new standalone novella by the Arthur C Clarke Award-winning author of <i>Children of Time</i>.