I’ve been on a cosmic horror kick lately, and what I’d really like to read is stories or novels of the awful and unfathomable on a spaceship. Stories where we go to them, poke what shouldn’t be poked, scan what shouldn’t be scanned, and things proceed from there.
Yes, I think so. The pods are there in the flashback of the ship and the doctor (who ends up serving cathedral guy) used to take some people as payment. That’s what my memory says. And cathedral guy is one of the main characters of Absolution Gap, so it all adds up.