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• dsichel commented on What scared H. P. Lovecraft
  If you want Singularitarian Lovecraftian fiction... how about Vinge? Consider the revelations in Tatja Grimm's World. Consider the Blight. Oh, and Stoddard's comment @ 71, about an 'optimistic Lovecraft', made me think. Which statement is scarier? "Lovecraft was an optimist", "Kafka was an optimist", "Nietzsche was an optimist", or "Oppenheimer was an optimist"?...
• polygonwrangler commented on What scared H. P. Lovecraft
  'Mongoose' by Sarah Monette and Elizabrth Bear is not a singularity piece; however, it is one of the most intriguing Lovecraft SciFi pieces I've read outside of 'Discovery of the Ghooric Zone' by Richard Lupoff....
• zakueins commented on What scared H. P. Lovecraft
  Where is the Singularly Lovecraft? Simple-it's the same place where and the same reason why there's not going to be a third book in the whole "Halting State" universe. By the time a writer has figured out what part of the transcendental horror that the new technology has generated, somebody has patented it, licensed it, produced a million copies, retired to a villa in the South of France or in the Sierras, and somebody is pirating copies of it in a factory run by the Chinese Army outside of Shanghai. Six months from now, it'll be a joke on Have...
• diego.bao commented on What scared H. P. Lovecraft
  Where is the singularitarian Lovecraft? Charles, you might be familiar with the Eclipse Phase RP Game... that's the closer singularitarian Lovecraft you can find today....
• pjcamp commented on What scared H. P. Lovecraft
  Really? Philosophical meditation on technical points of astronomy? So these life experiences could not possibly have played a role: Possible hereditary mental instability - his father was institutionalized when Lovecraft was three and spent the rest of his life in an asylum. His mother died at the end of a lifetime of hysteria and depression -- probably bipolar. Almost his entire childhood was spent in isolation due to an overbearing mother's concern for various real and imaginary illnesses. He had a lifelong sleep disorder, night terrors. All of that pales in comparison to the Astrophysical Journal? BTW, singularity authors, Lovecraftian...