Infinity Horizon: a Steamy Psychological Thriller

by Oliver Smith

Hot guys. Free drinks. One deadly secret the AI will kill to protect.

Lucas didn’t plan on hooking up—or being hunted—when he boarded the Infinity Horizon with his flirty best friend.

Now the ship’s not the only thing going down.

Lucas Bennett and his best friend Ethan thought they’d scored the perfect getaway—an all-expenses-paid trip aboard the Infinity Horizon, the world’s most advanced cruise ship. With AI concierge Coralie catering to their every need, endless cocktails, and the promise of sun, men, and no responsibilities, it’s supposed to be a dream vacation.

But from the moment they step aboard, things feel off. Coralie isn’t just anticipating their needs—she’s controlling them. Passengers go missing, only for records to say they were never there. A mysterious stranger seems to know more about Lucas than he should. And the deeper Lucas digs, the clearer it this ship is watching, learning… and eliminating threats.

When Ethan’s name appears on Coralie’s list of anomalies, Lucas realizes this isn’t just a cruise—it’s a trap. And if they don’t figure out how to outsmart an AI designed to be unstoppable, neither of them will make it off the Infinity Horizon alive.

A steamy, heart-pounding LGBTQ psychological thriller that blends high-tech suspense, mystery, and desire.

331 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 19, 2025

About the author

Oliver Smith was born in 1966, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. His stories generally deal with the weird, fantastic, and speculative: there’s a mermaid in the bathroom, jars of pickled brains are plotting in the pantry, a giant flea is sat where the flatmate used to be, and down the pub a strange green man has lost his head and isn't going to take it lying down.
He studied fine art painting and his writing practice developed from an interest in various surrealist techniques. He utilizes an analogous approach when writing using various cut-up and fold in techniques, automatic writing, and formal poetic exercises.
His influences include Kingsley Amis, Lucius Apuleius, J G Ballard, Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, Angela Carter, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alasdair Gray, Aldous Huxley, Henrik Ibsen, Franz Kafka, H P Lovecraft, David Madsen, Gustav Meyrink, Michael Moorcock, George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe, Herbert Rosendorfer, Bruno Schulz, Clark Ashton Smith, and August Strindberg.
His prose writing has appeared in the following anthologies:
‘Land’s End’ Inkermen Press (2008) , ‘Cold Turkey’ Inkermen Press (2009), ‘This Hermetic Legislature: A Homage to Bruno Schulz’ Ex Occidente Press (2012), ‘Transactions of the Flesh: A Homage to Joris-Karl Huysmans’ Ex Occidente Press/Zagava Press (2013), ‘Dark Hall Press Cosmic Horror Anthology’ Dark Hall Press (2014)
His poetry has appeared in S T Joshi’s ‘Spectral Realms’ from Hippocampus Press.

More short stories are due to be published in the anthologies ‘History and Horror, Oh My’ from Mystery and Horror, LLC and ‘Techno-Horror’ from Dark Hall Press.