Extollager
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"All the objects -- organic and inorganic alike" paragraph.
This reminded me a bit of the "Jupiter and Beyond" sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey -- the incomprehensible shapes, the "shrieking, roaring confusion of sound which permeated the abysses," etc.
I was reminded too of Algis Budrys's novella "Rogue Moon," which may be found in one of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame volumes. I hesitate to say much about the novella other than that I recommend it to those who admire Lovecraft's "Witch House" concept.
Those are works that appeared years after the Lovecraft story, but I wonder if it owed anything to George MacDonald's concept of the realm of the seven dimensions in his weird masterpiece Lilith (1895), which Lovecraft knew well: he'd read the first version and the final version; some admirers of MacDonald don't even know there are two versions....
This reminded me a bit of the "Jupiter and Beyond" sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey -- the incomprehensible shapes, the "shrieking, roaring confusion of sound which permeated the abysses," etc.
I was reminded too of Algis Budrys's novella "Rogue Moon," which may be found in one of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame volumes. I hesitate to say much about the novella other than that I recommend it to those who admire Lovecraft's "Witch House" concept.
Those are works that appeared years after the Lovecraft story, but I wonder if it owed anything to George MacDonald's concept of the realm of the seven dimensions in his weird masterpiece Lilith (1895), which Lovecraft knew well: he'd read the first version and the final version; some admirers of MacDonald don't even know there are two versions....
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