this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
65 points (97.1% liked)

Science Fiction

13639 readers
59 users here now

Welcome to /c/ScienceFiction

December book club canceled. Short stories instead!

We are a community for discussing all things Science Fiction. We want this to be a place for members to discuss and share everything they love about Science Fiction, whether that be books, movies, TV shows and more. Please feel free to take part and help our community grow.

  1. Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally insult others.
  2. Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, or advocating violence will be removed.
  3. Spam, self promotion, trolling, and bots are not allowed
  4. Put (Spoilers) in the title of your post if you anticipate spoilers.
  5. Please use spoiler tags whenever commenting a spoiler in a non-spoiler thread.

Lemmy World Rules

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Tenthrow@lemmy.world
65
Book recommendations for cosmic horror on a spaceship (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by spittingimage@lemmy.world to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
26 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I've been on a cosmic horror kick lately, and what I'd really like to read is stories or novels of the awful and unfathomable on a spaceship. Stories where we go to them, poke what shouldn't be poked, scan what shouldn't be scanned, and things proceed from there.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Brokkr@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I haven't read the book, but watched the movie. I think Event Horizon might be what you're looking for.

I've heard references to these sorts of stories in the 40k universe, but again I haven't read the books.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 8 points 9 months ago

There's a theory that Event Horizon happened in the distant past of the WH40k universe.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 6 points 9 months ago

Event Horizon is much better if you pretend it's a prequel to WH40K.

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think because of the coincidence between both Event Horizon and ships in 40k running into 'chaos' in the warp.

But as much as people keep making the parallel, it is just as likely that both drew their ideas from H.P. Lovecraft's ideas of what lies beyond what we know as spacetime in our comfortable sphere.