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As I have been a life long Fan of Creators such as Lovecraft and Many Others, so then enjoyed your thoughts mentioned with this Video about Lovecraft and his Great Ideas put forth.. As I think You did Sum up Very Well the Concepts and Visions as how H P Lovecraft did see the World and far Beyond.... As for how we are also part of that Dark never Ending Spider Web, spread through out the Depths of the Big Black, that Always seems to Calls to Us. But then the Question, Should We Answer or invite such Shadowed Stranger from Far and Distant Places, to come and know that we are Here, as the Results of such a Meeting, might not be an Event, that would end Well for any of Us here, on this Small Blue Dot... And then as an Artist, Animator and Designer.... So also have had many thoughts and Ideas about Lovecraft and his Works. As then Projects, I too have been thinking about, so for myself also Creating a Few Small Productions of my Own... And so then many ideas I too have, for New Projects to come And though such specific ideas I see only in my Minds Third Eyes... Ideas are Coming together.. As then Very Much Enjoyed Your HP Lovecraft Video... So until I get on with those Next Potential Projects, I still then have other Images of My Works, that can be Seen, on My Gordon Strong FB Art Page... As a Very Good Day to You and All Other Lovecraft Fans....... 🐙🐙🐙

By the way, Lovecraft influenced by the pictures of Himalayans by russian painter Nikolaj Roerich!

Masterpiece. Absolute amazing pure creativity.

Lovecraft: "but what if Anglo-Saxon men *aren't* the most powerful minds in the universe? 😱"

Ds9 a good choice for number one, but no Dr Who??

YEAY!!! Our Darrel is BACK!!! 🙂 ❤

Make a video on Arthur Machen!

Lovecraft I believe pierced the veil of what reality was. But he clothed what he found there with horror as it did threaten his very materialistic egocentric outlook. From an occult perspective Kenneth Grant fully used the Cthulhu mythos to further the work of Aleister Crowley in exploring these unknown realms. But in modern depth psychology and in the works of the likes of Donald Hoffman, Rupert Sheldrake and Dr Anthony Stevens that placid island of Ignorance may be sinking into having to understand what lies beneath and it is everything Lovecraft wrote in terror about. You make a mistake. He wasn't born in 1980! Think that should have been 1890. Apologies for nit picking on that point.

Gosh how I miss him.

The Spain-Germany match is going on and I'd much rather watch Darrel speak about H.P. Lovecraft. His view of the cosmos is accurate; we just don't matter to it! 😅

While I enjoyed the overview of his works and cosmicism, I find it disappointing you went into his life and real world influences without mentioning once his pretty extreme racism and xenophobia. These were big and unfortunate influences on his work and important to point out, and I think you could have done so without undermining his influence if that’s what you were trying to avoid

A recent add to my subscriptions. Just finished Banks Culture Series and just needed to know more. Your channel has been a wealth of real thought and understanding of the authors and genre. Thanks.

I find our insignificance in the universe comforting. Love the video.

Read enough lovecraft and it usually boils down to "i went somewhere lost and forgotten and there i saw something conveniently indescribable and lost my wits!"

Thank you for this great video. My favorite story by Lovecraft is "The Colour Out of Space," but "The Mountains of Madness" is also wonderful. He's one of my favorite authors and it would have been an interesting experience knowing him -- he was such a mysterious person.

Two others to check out Thomas Ligotti (cosmicism) and Charles Stross (especially the The Laundry Files). Stross’s other SCIFI is excellent as well.

slight error - lovecraft was born in 1890, not 1980 :D otherwise, i love your videos, darryl, and am pleasantly surprised to see you have expanded your reviews to cover other related genres :D

Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! (some cultist had to say it) - great vid on one of the (grand)fathers of modern horror (Poe might be one of the others) - and it can well be seen that nature is totally indifferent to humanity when you consider the stupendously long ages of the Earth, so why would the greater cosmos be any different? I like to think that grain of truth really adds to the Lovecraftian viewpoint

Mountains of Madness is going on my reading list!! Cheers

So many people take it for granted that audiences need characters that they can relate to for the duration. But there are no such characters in anthology shows like "The Twilight Zone" and "The Outer Limits", and at least those two worked fine. Maybe audiences aren't as needy as people think they are, and "Foundation" didn't need to depart from the source material as much as it did.

Both book and series would have been better had it turned out in the end that in some distant future someone had traveled back in time to share with Nazi Germany information of Allied Troops positions as well as information on nuclear weapons in order to help Nazi Germany win the war with an attack on American east coast cities. Which in turn would pave the way for Japan to annex the West Coast Cities and other States in the west. Certainly this would have been a far better way for explaining just how such and upside down way of life could come to pass in the first place. What's more? It would have been far better to have every single season start in a new decade. This could have led up to good temporal paradox where the survivors of the resistance discovered Nazi plans to use time travel to fulfill what perceived as destiny to send someone back to WWII Germany to change history in order to create the world modern day Nazis live in which they rule America. Just think of how much better the book and series could have been with the resistance working together to stop the Nazi Regime from going back in time in the first place. This would inadvertently created a ripping effect in order to create a brand new future for say both Frank and Juliana to return home to if they had somehow gained access to the Nazis time travel technology to go back to stop a Nazi agent or agents from changing history in the first place. Time plotting this book and series could have more easily explained the true origins of those new films which show a world still with it's problems. A world none the less better than what it was under both Nazi Riech and Japanese Empire rule!

I've never read Isaac Asimov's work, but if Wikipedia's anything to go by, Asimov's writing style's my type.

I'm sorry it didn't meet your expectations, I actually really enjoyed this book and found the plot really interesting the more you were far in the plot.

Probably the most impactful thing I took from the book also would cause me to spontaneously chuckle every time I thought of it: the elevation and glorification of a notary public to "divine witness", which still cracks me up.

Didn't read the book. But as a show watcher, I love it. I enjoyed season 2 more than the first. We will see how it goes in future seasons, but I think Foundation will ultimately reach my top 10 list, assuming it gets a conclusion and the writing quality remains roughly the same. Great sci-fi.

Lensmen and Skylark series are great series. Crimson Worlds, Lost Fleet, Black Fleet, Federation Marines, Expeditionary Force, The Huminoids, Colossus series and Omega Force are some of my favorites. Being 76 years old, I have no idea what Space Opera means.

"Plural marriage" is a Latter-day Saint, Mormon, term for polygyny one man, more than one woman,. THE MOON IS A HARSH MISTRESS and STRANGER IN A STRAMGE LAND feature group marriage, more than one of both men and women. In HARSH MISTRESS, the group marriages are corporate, that is, they survive the founding generations, too, with young new wives and husbands joining as the others, including the okd, die. Plural marriage is not a general term. "Polygamy" is.

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If you think peaceful thoughts this is a harder concept to get. If you think not peaceful thoughts, this makes perfect since.

I read this book so many years ago, and I seldom remember book plots for too many years (which lets me re-read favorites every 2-3 years and still be surprised...). This must have been something I read in the early 90's maybe, or even the late 80's. I can remember being slightly irritated about some parts, but the other stuff was just great enough to drown that. Strangely enough, the only thing I remember about the book today was how the main characters 'worried' about the nudity taboo in different versions/dimensions... And that they could move around between different universes? I think... There can't have been a heroic/fun part about it, since I never bothered to read it again, though? I keep thinking about it as something philosophical, I'm afraid.

The show "adaptation" is way too different from the source material. As a TV show? Nice CG effects, Emperor characters is good, show is marred with terrible subplots and characters overall specially the uninteresting and unrealistic protagonists and some extremely annoying antagonists, hardly nothing to keep my interest.

Excellent presentation. He is my fave author of all-time! Just subbed your channel.

Solar sunlight causes poverty of agricultural serfdom of being herded on to rail transit while rise of audio cell phones are an electronic opium den so where are the spaceplanes and flying cars I was promised?

Dystopia horror has literary snob appeal since what happened was by 1982 bold futurism went from squeaky clean crystal chrome unbounded to heavy metal cyberpunk grim dark gritty of how great megacities for humanity to conquer the universe was canceled due to synergism of Pro Life with environmentalists of how Americans had it to too easy from 1945 to 1965. In of my parent's day there were ghettos and or colonies for social problems at safe distances without a culture of passive aggressive screamer scammer victimhood sing the blues compared to how "Popular Science" used to be full of consumerism so I tried to explain to them how today Americans the poor slobs of how South Side resembles National Geographic photos of South Asia India or South Central Latin America.

I find what he calls controversial as thought provoking which was Heinlein's original intension

Read every one of these books in my youth, they helped make me the man I am today, the better parts, I hope.

Thank you. I always like when a reviewer warns of spoilers; usually, I carry on, thinking, it's okay, I'll bear in mind etc. This time, some instinct made me skip the spoilers, and I'm so glad I did. I knew I was going to read Use of Weapons and I'd already picked up on this book being one of the best. It really is. When I reached the end, I knew I'd read one of science fiction's great novels. Not just in SF terms, but any way you consider literature. Now I've gone back to view your spoiler section, and I find I had many of the same thoughts as you did. I'd add, that I felt among the book's strong themes, the one that stood out for me was how we can never really escape what happens to us in childhood. No matter how life turns out for us, we will always feel the echoes of the joys and torments of our earliest experiences. I am going through the books very slowly and am relishing the prospect of the rest of them. But I know that if and when I reread any of them, I will first reach for Use of Weapons. It's magnificent.

My Favorite SF Writer.

His books gave me the foundation to be who I became. Silicon Valley was only beginning in his productive life, but it enabled the greatest expansion of human capability since WW2

Good list, sir! I just finished THE SIMULACRA (no, I'm not suggesting it should have made the list) and I found it filled with (over-blown with?) such insane social and technological constructs that only PKD could have written it. Plot-wise, it was more like his short stories, but he filled it with such insanity I was having fun the whole time.

Crimson World's, United Federation Marines, The Ember War and Forgotten Ruin are some of my favorites. Marko Kloss never finished Frontlines as far as I know.

murderbot diaries is one of the great sci fi books of our time, a true classic

In terms of storytelling, character development, world building and overall quality, it’s no competition in the slightest.

What about Vatta War and the Honorverse?

I might have read every book on that shelf behind you. I'd have also included The Dark Tower books up there. I'd wager that you've read that series too.

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As Sci Fi novels/series these are all excellent choices for an engrossing read. Space Operas they ain't. EE Doc Smith provided 2 with the Lensman and Skylark Series, Harry Harrison and the Stainless Steeel Rat series is another and Piers Anthonys Bio of a Space Tyrant is a classic of the genre. Again your choices are great books/series but far from Space Operas

Sorry, but some of the books on this list could/should have been left off in favor of Larry Niven's Ringworld and it's sequel (both Hugo winner, but unlike OSC's back to back wins it took Larry 10 years to win both of his Hugo awards). However, like OSC's Enderverse, Niven's Tales of Known Space (in which both the Ringworld books are set) you have a UNIVERSE of well constructed stories many of which (as we saw in the book PAK) not only expand the universe but ADD to the books that have already been written and published, but on the books that were not only not published, but not even written yet. This is the kind of world building that several of those listed here and PRAISED for their single book 'world building' do not even approach. Niven's Tales of Known Space centers on a society in which he death penalty is being applied to lower and lower levels of crimes because the sentence is to have your body broken up in order to supply the constantly growing lust for newer, replacement part for the wealthy. In a wide ranging genre (detective, space exploration and even colonization) you have a society in which it is not always clear that the morals are universal.

They are more like essays on dumb behavior in seemingly novel backgrounds . Greg Egan was a breath of fresh air .

If its original it gets cancelled by s2