Murderer's Base

The void between stars is cold, but not nearly as cold as the ambition burning in the heart of a man alone on an asteroid with everything to gain. Set against the brutal backdrop of space mining in the late 1940s, Murderer's Base follows two partners stationed on a desolate rock, chasing fortune in the form of a rich mineral deposit. The work is solitary, dangerous, and the only human contact is each other. When greed poisons their partnership, one man begins to scheme, plotting a murder that will leave him sole owner of the ore. But in the silence of space, even thoughts grow loud, and trust erodes faster than oxygen. Brittain builds psychological tension like pressure in an airlock, slowly, then all at once. This is a story about what happens when the only thing standing between a man and his dreams is another man. The loneliness isn't just physical. It's the loneliness of temptation, of knowing what you could become if no one was watching.