Posts tagged A Lush and Seething Hell
Cameron's Book Round-Up: Fall, part 2
Cameron's Book Round-Up: Fall, part 2

I’m really tired, so I’m just going to get into this. These books are good, but it’s November, and I’m a teacher. November is hell month.

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Book reviews, Written by: CameronCameron SummersJoe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred, The Trouble With Peace, The Wisdom of Crowds, The Locked Tomb trilogy, Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Charles Stross, The Laundry Files, Escape From Yokai Land, The Delirium Brief, The Labyrinth INdex, Dead Lies Dreaming, James S.A. Corey, The Expanse, Leviathan Falls, A Lush and Seething Hell, John Horner Jacobs, Hannu Rajaniemi, Jean le Flambeur, The Causal Angel, Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories, Iain M. Banks, Iain Banks, Consider Phlebas Comment
On Forbidden Knowledge: The Big Other and Social Censorship
On Forbidden Knowledge: The Big Other and Social Censorship

This makes cosmic horror an interesting genre – what we are looking for in it is something that we tend not to think of as anywhere near desirable: we are looking for someone to assure us that an individual person’s life doesn’t matter. This is not simply a way of understanding cosmic horror, but a way of using cosmic horror as a lens through which to read other events.

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CommentaryCameron SummersCosmic Horror, Carcosa Shit, A Lush and Seething Hell, The Laundry Files, H.P. Lovecraft, A People's History of the United States, Mutant Epistemologies, The Shape of Water, COINTELPRO, Phillip K. Dick, Thomas Ligotti, China Miéville, Libidinal Economy, John Hornor JacobsComment