Based on the thrilling video game, Dead Space, where CEC engineer Issac Clarke explores the U.S.G. Ishimura for not only any survivers of the dreadful necromorph outbreak caused by something known as The Red Marker, thought to be of alien origin, and worshiped by unitologists and thought of as an artifact that, through certain rituals, can bring you convergence and rebirth, but also he searches for his girlfriend, Nicole Brennan. This story tells of an engineer named Jonathan Well's experience aboard the Ishimura, the story is told through his text logs, from his first to his last...

The year is 2456 and earth's resources have been exhausted, consumed, ravenged. At the brink of extinction, mankind mastered space flight to find new planets to be cracked open... And stripped bare. Planet cracking became routine, it's spoils kept us alive. But then greedy eyes fell upon Aegis 7. Restricted for reasons unknown, greed and corruption saught to the demise of caution. When a massive mining ship, the USG Ishimura, comes in contact with a mysterious alien artifact and suddenly loses its communications with Earth. Engineer Isaac Clarke is sent to repair the Ishimura's communications, but arrives to find a floating vessel that has become a complete bloodbath. The crew is mutilated and infected with an ancient alien scourge. This book starts at the beginning of the cracking of the planet. Enjoy

Two years have passed. During an expedition to the planet Aegis VII, of scientists discover a giant specimen of Necromorph, trapped in the ice, the Nexus. They extract a sample of specimens for study. Isaac Clarke at form a new team, with Ellie Langford, Emily Simmons, Mathias Bagans and Calista Ox. One day, they are sent on the planet Aegis VII, because in recent weeks, the research station Thanatos, unresponsive. On the place, the team discovers that the Necromorph virus, has spread throughout the base and has contaminated throughout the staff, turning them into rabid Necromorphs. And they will discover that the unitologists are also involved. For the soldiers, the nightmare begins again and the fight for survival also.