While H.P. Lovecraft was responsible for popularizing one of the most profoundly terrifying genres of horror imaginable, he was also a total bigot. A xenophobic shut in, many of Lovecraft’s stories were inspired by his fear foreign cultures, and his racism is often reflected in his fiction. Plenty of modern authors have made superior contributions to cosmic horror, without any of the problematic views. Here they are, the 10 best cosmic horror sci-fi books with which Lovecraft was entirely uninvolved.
The Three Body Problem
(Tor)Liu Cixin’s The Three Body Problem series begins with the solid cosmic horror of an alien invasion and then gets more and more cosmically horrible as the trilogy goes on. After a group of physicists discover that an extraterrestrial race called the Trisolarians are plotting to colonize Earth, humanity races to improve its weapons technology before the invaders can cross the gulf of space. As if the threat of an invasion from ONE species wasn’t bad enough, the later novels pit humanity against an entire universe CHOCK FULL of potential alien threats. The trilogy provides a terrifying solution to the Fermi Paradox, which asks “if the universe has infinite potential for life, why haven’t we seen it?” The answer: because like animals lurking in a dark forest, alien civilizations are all hiding from one another so as to not be devoured.
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