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Artemis One-Zero-Five
In the darkness between the planets, an empty spacesuit jerks into life…
Far away, in the perceived safety of a south London laboratory, a human mind merges with the suit's mechanical framework via the Link.
Nick Scott was born to explore. During a mission to chart a distant asteroid he is drawn to investigate the shadows pooled beneath a certain rock formation – and a momentary lapse in concentration sends his consciousness tumbling into the unknown blackness of the void.
He is saved but a mysterious force has found its way into the Link. Something foul is rising from the depths of Nick’s mind, gathering substance and spilling into the rain-lashed streets of Wimbledon and Tooting. As memories and dreams uncoil, imagination takes on a deadly reality and a horrifying threat is unleashed.
A thrilling, mind-bending horror culminating in a pulse-pounding struggle for physical and mental survival.
Enter the Link and discover what lurks on Artemis One-Zero-Five!
201 pages, Paperback
Published May 3, 2018
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About the author
Christopher Henderson
5 books21 followersChristopher Henderson has haunted south London (UK) in one form or another ever since he was born at the dawn of the 1970s.
Only a few months earlier, human beings had walked on the surface of another world for the first time. Yet on the day Henderson arrived, and on the other side of the same city, modern Londoners were preparing to hunt and stake a vampire in Highgate Cemetery.
It was the start of a weird decade – perhaps the weirdest ever. A technological age steeped in the heady vapours of witchcraft and the occult. A time when ghosts and poltergeists could be serious news items, monsters lurked in every lake and wood, and Flying Saucers flitted through the skies. All that strangeness left its mark on a growing boy.
Henderson's first career in writing (under a different name) concentrated on non-fiction, or at least on the shadowy outer edges of fact. Occasional forays into writing fiction garnered him a smattering of local and national awards, but for the most part his articles and books, published both traditionally and independently, specialized in folklore and real-life paranormal experiences.
That person is dead.
In this incarnation, Henderson writes fiction, and especially supernatural horror fiction, in defiance of a country, a world, and a modern era he no longer wishes to acknowledge.
He is the author of Artemis One-Zero-Five – 'a really well done, character-driven sci-fi/horror story' (Kendall Reviews) – and writes the Undine and Cross 1970s-set horror thrillers, of which the first, The Horror at Lavender Edge, is 'a terrific and imaginative read' (Home Grown Horror Reviews). Acclaimed horror writer, editor and critic Ramsey Campbell described the finale of Henderson's short story Tourist Traps (published in the Diabolica Britannica charity anthology) as 'a little masterclass of understated dread'.
Only a few months earlier, human beings had walked on the surface of another world for the first time. Yet on the day Henderson arrived, and on the other side of the same city, modern Londoners were preparing to hunt and stake a vampire in Highgate Cemetery.
It was the start of a weird decade – perhaps the weirdest ever. A technological age steeped in the heady vapours of witchcraft and the occult. A time when ghosts and poltergeists could be serious news items, monsters lurked in every lake and wood, and Flying Saucers flitted through the skies. All that strangeness left its mark on a growing boy.
Henderson's first career in writing (under a different name) concentrated on non-fiction, or at least on the shadowy outer edges of fact. Occasional forays into writing fiction garnered him a smattering of local and national awards, but for the most part his articles and books, published both traditionally and independently, specialized in folklore and real-life paranormal experiences.
That person is dead.
In this incarnation, Henderson writes fiction, and especially supernatural horror fiction, in defiance of a country, a world, and a modern era he no longer wishes to acknowledge.
He is the author of Artemis One-Zero-Five – 'a really well done, character-driven sci-fi/horror story' (Kendall Reviews) – and writes the Undine and Cross 1970s-set horror thrillers, of which the first, The Horror at Lavender Edge, is 'a terrific and imaginative read' (Home Grown Horror Reviews). Acclaimed horror writer, editor and critic Ramsey Campbell described the finale of Henderson's short story Tourist Traps (published in the Diabolica Britannica charity anthology) as 'a little masterclass of understated dread'.
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June 13, 2019
** Edited as review is now live on Kendall Reviews! **
4.5/5
I’ve found since becoming more involved with the online horror community that there are some talented folks out there. Some of those talented folks are sometimes hidden right in front of your eyes.
I noticed for a time on Twitter that Christopher Henderson would frequently like, retweet or promote all things horror. I personally love supporting those who support me, so finally (much too long really) I took a look and found that Mr. Henderson had released a novella called Artemis One-Zero-Five. A sci-fi/horror story that really piqued my interest.
Artemis One-Zero-Five is a fun tale with a very unique idea that it jumps off from. Nick Scott is an astronaut but not in the normal sense. A Professor has developed a robot that can be controlled through a mental connection or link between a human on earth and the robot in orbit. Nick is one of the best users and frequently is used to explore terrain looking for key samples.
During one specific trip on an asteroid, beneath a rock structure that feels familiar for an unknown reason, Nick experiences an odd sensation. We quickly find out that something has crossed over the link, has moved from the asteroid back to earth and Nick finds out that his colleagues and himself are now in danger.
Henderson creates a great framework to roll out the plot and we get the basics of how the system works and how it’s controlled. In this case, it plays to the reader’s benefit that he doesn’t get too technical or detailed with it. It wouldn’t add anything of substance.
Henderson also smartly creates a character who can aid the main group. The beauty of this character is that they went through some of the training in the linking program before being turned away. I enjoyed this feature because it allowed solutions to be brought up from outside of the box. Instead of it being a straight forward alien invasion type tale, this character was able to add some assistance and inject some variables that otherwise wouldn’t have been workable in the normal story setting.
Henderson did a deft job of developing an ongoing sense of dread and impending terror, all while making the characters and their reactions rational, which was a spot on great job.
I would have given this story 5 stars if the action had picked up a little faster, but that’s just me expecting a quicker start with a shorter page count.
Overall a really well done, character-driven sci-fi/horror story that answered the questions it laid out but also allowed a number of avenues to be explored if he decided to offer up a sequel.
4.5/5
I’ve found since becoming more involved with the online horror community that there are some talented folks out there. Some of those talented folks are sometimes hidden right in front of your eyes.
I noticed for a time on Twitter that Christopher Henderson would frequently like, retweet or promote all things horror. I personally love supporting those who support me, so finally (much too long really) I took a look and found that Mr. Henderson had released a novella called Artemis One-Zero-Five. A sci-fi/horror story that really piqued my interest.
Artemis One-Zero-Five is a fun tale with a very unique idea that it jumps off from. Nick Scott is an astronaut but not in the normal sense. A Professor has developed a robot that can be controlled through a mental connection or link between a human on earth and the robot in orbit. Nick is one of the best users and frequently is used to explore terrain looking for key samples.
During one specific trip on an asteroid, beneath a rock structure that feels familiar for an unknown reason, Nick experiences an odd sensation. We quickly find out that something has crossed over the link, has moved from the asteroid back to earth and Nick finds out that his colleagues and himself are now in danger.
Henderson creates a great framework to roll out the plot and we get the basics of how the system works and how it’s controlled. In this case, it plays to the reader’s benefit that he doesn’t get too technical or detailed with it. It wouldn’t add anything of substance.
Henderson also smartly creates a character who can aid the main group. The beauty of this character is that they went through some of the training in the linking program before being turned away. I enjoyed this feature because it allowed solutions to be brought up from outside of the box. Instead of it being a straight forward alien invasion type tale, this character was able to add some assistance and inject some variables that otherwise wouldn’t have been workable in the normal story setting.
Henderson did a deft job of developing an ongoing sense of dread and impending terror, all while making the characters and their reactions rational, which was a spot on great job.
I would have given this story 5 stars if the action had picked up a little faster, but that’s just me expecting a quicker start with a shorter page count.
Overall a really well done, character-driven sci-fi/horror story that answered the questions it laid out but also allowed a number of avenues to be explored if he decided to offer up a sequel.
February 26, 2022
Seriously one of the best Science-fiction stories I have ever read. It's exciting, elegant, intelligent. This book has it all. How this doesn't have thousands of rates is shocking.
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