Ymir by Rich Larson is $2 in the US (
Kobo,
Amazon)
Was recommended as VERY bleak.
Set in the same universe as a previous novel, but I don't think familiarity is required.
Quote:
As glittering and treacherous as an icy cavern, Rich Larson's far-future tale of revenge and revolution is a gripping thriller inspired by the legendary story of Beowulf.
Yorick never wanted to see his homeworld again. He left Ymir two decades ago, with half his face blown off and no love lost for the place. But when his employer's mines are threatened by a vicious alien machine, Yorick is shipped back home to hunt it.
All he wants is to do his job and get out. Instead, Yorick is pulled into a revolution brewing beneath Ymir's frozen surface, led by the very last person he wanted to see again—the brother who sent him off in pieces twenty years ago..
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