Future Lovecraft

Registered by wingGoryDetailswing of Nashua, New Hampshire USA on 7/26/2024
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Journal Entry 1 by wingGoryDetailswing from Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Friday, July 26, 2024
I got this softcover anthology at a local Annie's Book Stop. It features futuristic tales and poems inspired by Lovecraft's works, including dystopian futures, SF, and more dark-fantasy types. Among my favorites:

The playfully horrific "Inky, Blinky, Pinky, Nyarlathotep" by Nick Mamatas riffs on AI and what might happen, eldritch-horror-wise, given enough time.

"Harmony Amid the Stars" by Ada Hoffmann is in the form of an apocalyptic diary by the survivor of a space crew as something increasingly disturbing takes over the ship.

"A Comet Called Ithaqua" by Don Webb posits the desperate moves of a deep-space scout ship during wartime as the cause of a malevolent - and very hungry - comet.

"Go, Go, Go, Said the Byakhee" by Molly Tanzer features a narrator/protagonist who is a young person in a sere, challenging landscape, where most beings who survive have taken on strange and different shapes. Our protagonist is almost of an age to go on pilgrimage to the Mother in the Salt and receive her own changed form, but is too impatient to wait for permission and sets out on her own. And what she finds will change things, indeed, but not in the way she hoped.

"A Cool, Private Place" by Jen White takes an interesting turn on the theme: the protagonists have moved to a small town in a remote part of Australia, where the time wells have been pretty thoroughly mapped - though they can pop up in unexpected spots, so they're never perfectly safe. When a rough, tough character who seems to have come from the age when convicts were transported to Australia en masse, our peace-loving protagonists have to find a way to deal with him. While their world is still in turmoil, this story's among the most upbeat in the book.

Mae Empson's "A Welcome Sestina from Cruise Director Isabeau Molyneux" is a poem lauding the cruise line's feasts of the eggs of a humongous squid. Things... do not go well {grin}.

"The Damnable Asteroid" by Leigh Kimmel has space miners encountering an asteroid that turns out to be the encysted egg of something huge and dangerous.

"Concerning the Last Days of the Colony at New Roanoke" by Tucker Cummings unfolds via a series of exhibits - fragments of gear and personal items collected from the scene of the lost colony.

"Deep Blue Dreams" by Sean Craven blends drug addiction with the spread of a new kind of living jelly, and shows the reactions of people in a world that's falling apart around them to the opportunity to give themselves up to the jelly...

Journal Entry 2 by wingGoryDetailswing at LFL - Patterson Rd (61) in Shirley, Massachusetts USA on Monday, October 14, 2024

Released 3 wks ago (10/14/2024 UTC) at LFL - Patterson Rd (61) in Shirley, Massachusetts USA

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I left this book in the Little Free Library on this chilly, drizzly day; hope someone enjoys it!

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** 2024 Science Fiction challenge. **

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