Pansexual main character identity.
Summary
Two boys, alone in space.
After the first settler on Titan trips her distress signal, neither remaining country on Earth can afford to scramble a rescue of its own, and so two sworn enemies are installed in the same spaceship.
Ambrose wakes up on the Coordinated Endeavor, with no memory of a launch. There’s more that doesn’t add up: Evidence indicates strangers have been on board, the ship’s operating system is voiced by his mother, and his handsome, brooding shipmate has barricaded himself away. But nothing will stop Ambrose from making his mission succeed—not when he’s rescuing his own sister.
In order to survive the ship’s secrets, Ambrose and Kodiak will need to work together and learn to trust one another… especially once they discover what they are truly up against. Love might be the only way to survive.
Student Reviews
Cancer
Death
Depression
Murder
Suicide
Violence
Parents need to know that Eliot Schrefer's The Darkness Outside Us is about two teen boys on a rescue mission traveling through space in the far future. Violence includes killing, fighting, and being attacked with weapons like tools and electric shock. Pain and blood are described as well as what it's like to die in the vacuum of space. There's lots of tension from dangerous situations. A same-sex romance includes kissing, undressing, putting hands down pants, and spooning are described briefly. Having sex is implied by a conversation about it afterward. Strong language includes "f--k," "s--t," and "ass." Drinking to excess in the past is remembered.
ELIOT SCHREFER is a New York Times-bestselling author, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award. In naming him an Editor’s Choice, the New York Times has called his work “dazzling… big-hearted.” His books have been named to the NPR “best of the year” list, the ALA best fiction list for young adults, and the Chicago Public Library’s “Best of the Best.” His work has also been selected to the Amelia Bloomer List, recognizing best feminist books for young readers, and he has been a finalist for the Walden Award and won the Green Earth Book Award and Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award. He lives in New York City, is on the faculty of the Fairleigh Dickinson and Hamline MFAs in writing, and reviews books for USAToday.