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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
N. Joseph Glass’s Harbinger of Darkness follows Arenna Estanova, a former Earth military commander who now leads an asteroid survey crew aboard The Outlier. Six years after the war between Earth and Mars, Arenna wants the rules and routine of civilian work until her team cuts into an unregistered tunnel inside a Belt asteroid. Something enormous moves in the darkness, attacks the crew, and leaves behind evidence no one can explain. As warships begin appearing where they should not be, and vessels vanish from known routes, Arenna asks her estranged husband, Ed, to investigate rumors among Belt pirates. His search crosses paths with Dovian Holtman, a Martian looking for his missing sister, while the discovery inside the asteroid grows into humanity’s first contact with a threat hiding in plain sight.
N. Joseph Glass’s Harbinger of Darkness is brilliant first-contact science fiction, and the unknown gets under your skin. The suspense is fantastic, especially when darkness, broken comms, and suit lights reduce asteroid interiors to whatever is directly ahead. I also love the crew. Sam, The Outlier’s System Administration Module and captain, is my favorite because his dry personality makes him feel present beside the humans. Laigin, a pirate pilot with a hidden history, adds unpredictability once the separate searches collide. The science fiction works too, from pressure-saving enviro-suits to alien material that can show a possible future. Glass keeps the pacing moving as Earth–Mars politics widen the scale. Well written and genuinely unsettling, readers who enjoy first-contact thrillers with space-opera scale will adore this book.
