With Dark Matter and Thin Air, however, the similarities extend beyond a vague summary of each book. Hell, what I wrote up above there would almost fit as a description of The Shining if you just replace a couple of words in the opening sentence. Now, if you phrase things broadly enough you can make a lot of different stories sound suspiciously similar to each other.
There, it soon becomes apparent that secrets, crimes and tragedies figuratively and literally haunt the hostile landscape, and that the unquiet dead may be willing to do something dangerous to have their story heard.
The very high-level premise of both books– Dark Matter and Thin Air–could be described as follows: A man–an outsider among his peers–joins an expedition that will take him to one of the coldest and most inhospitable places on Earth. Classic, timeless lore befitting Lord Halifax’s Ghost Book. No, it’s still excellent, and both novels pull together something that feels like a legend. You might think the latter story might be less effective for being so close to the first. This is especially remarkable as they are so similar. I’ve only read two of her novels in fact, but they’re two of the best ghost stories I’ve ever read. On her official page, Michelle Paver is described first as simply “A Creator of Legends,” and whoever wrote that “ain’t never lied,” as the folks say.
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