by
Soheil Mirchi
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GENRE: Science Fiction
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BLURB:
How
far can you go before the silence breaks you?
Commander Solene Ellis
has left Earth behind forever. Now she drifts through the void aboard the
colony ship Nia Kvara, watching over 100,000 colonists in hibernation. Only
Ava, the ship’s AI, keeps her company.
The voyage spans 3,000
years, but for Solene, time comes in fragments—fleeting moments of wakefulness
between long, frozen sleeps. Hours blur into decades. Memories unravel. In the
stillness, she begins to lose track not only of time, but of herself.
And solitude in deep
space doesn’t stay quiet for long. Whispers echo where no one should be.
Shadows shift just beyond her vision. A mysterious vessel appears in the void.
Even Ava starts to act… strangely.
As reality fractures,
Solene must face a terrifying question: is something out there hunting them—or
has her own mind become the true threat?
For readers of literary
science fiction, space horror, and character-driven psychological drama,
HomeAdrift is a story of isolation, survival, and what it means to find home
when there's nowhere left to go.
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EXCERPT
I’m floating, or maybe I’m not. It’s impossible to tell.
There’s no sensation of movement, no whisper of air against skin, no gentle tug
of gravity to anchor my existence. Here, in this place—or non-place— there is
only the void. I open my eyes, or at least I think I do. But there’s no change,
no shift in perception. No flicker of shadow or glimmer of light. It’s a
uniform nothingness that stretches into infinity. There’s a comfort in this, a
release from the burdens of identity and existence, the weightless freedom from
being. Here, there’s no past to regret, no future to fear, no present to
endure. There’s no sorrow, no joy, no pain—no feelings to feel. I am the void,
and the void is me.
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The world is overwhelming. The lives we chase, the norms we follow, the time we waste, and the dreams we forget. I write to process. To understand. To make sense of it all.
I write because I run into walls—again and again. Walls that stop me from speaking, from connecting.
So I write. It's how I find my way through.
My
debut novel, HomeAdrift, is a story of isolation, identity, and survival—told
through the lens of space, but rooted deeply in the human need for home.
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My review:
3.75 stars
HomeAdrift by Soheil Mirchi follows Solene Ellis as she
shepherds a mammoth colony ship to its destination hundreds of light-years away
in an effort to escape the impending supernova threatening the future of Earth
and its inhabitants. Despite all of her training to be the sole person who
rouses from hibernation during the stages of this incredible journey, she soon
discovers far more challenges than she ever imagined.
This compelling science fiction story is thought-provoking
and disconcerting. The author utilizes vivid imagery and word portraits to
convey both the immensity of her responsibilities and the frightening unknown
that is facing this collection of intrepid explorers. There are several areas
of social commentary that remind the reader of the interconnectedness of the world
and prompt one to truly think about the butterfly effect. I love the nerdy
scientific aspects of the journey and the eerie twists and turns as reality
stretches and danger mounts, but I wasn’t happy about the ending because it
left me with more questions than answers.
A copy of this title was provided for review
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