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[lovecraft] Charlie Stross on what scared H. P. Lovecraft‘I believe that Lovecraft’s sense of cosmological dread emerged from the exponential expansion and recomplication of the universe he lived in-it eerily prefigures the appeal of today’s singularitarian fiction, which depends for its dizzying affect on a similar exponential growth curve. Lovecraft interpreted the expansion of his universe as a thing of horror, a changing cosmic scale factor that ground humanity down into insignificance.’

Charlie Stross On What Scared H. P. Lovecraft

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 at 12:21 pm and is filed under Books, H. P. Lovecraft.

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