An alien ship adrift in space, storm-wracked and abandoned.
 
Harmless?
 
So it appears, though the sleepers suspended in cryo inspire some alarm. Definitely human in origin, but mutated toward a skeletal, almost insectoid look. And why do they need those over-sized jaws and teeth?
 
No matter. Captain Brenda Valkonen and her crew fit the cryo chamber with several layers of safeguards, then examine the ship. Repeated sweeps reveal no signs of life.
 
Still, something is killing her crew.
 
In The Outcasts, horror lurks behind every tangle of wires, every thicket of pipes, and every computer readout.