#xeelee sequence

[grayrazor]

It'd be in the truest spirit of Lovecraft's style that if you're writing homage fiction, include eldritch beings from other unrelated works of fiction in the lists of blasphemous names.

"She began to speak, calling upon the epithets of the outer gods, harsh sounds not meant for the human tongue. Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, Yog-Sothoth, Azathoth, Shuma-Gorath, Hastur, Ungoliant, Tzeench, Slannesh, Pah-Wraith, Redjac, Ideon, Qull of the Five Inversions, Mxyzptlk, Dormammu, Lavos, Jenova, Zeromus, Kyuubey, Xeelee, Ghidorah, Ogdru Jahad, Vorlon, Dagoth Ur, Hermaeus Mora, Sheogorath, Abeloth, Waru, Mnngal-Mnngal, Zonama Sekot, Phaaze, Unicron, W'rkncacnter."

[sahaquiel43]

[siryl]

David A. Hardy's "Lift-Off Jupiter" a.k.a. "Jupiter Rocket," a revised version of "Lift-Off" a.k.a. "Marshmallow Moon."

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

And it's in the driest, least readable "novels" you've ever read...

[azdoine]

the Xeelee Sequence is infamous for cropping up in vsbattles nerd debates (it's military science fiction taken to the extreme!) and being hideously stupidly edgy (it's cosmic horror by someone who once wrote for 40k!). but honestly the reason I still remember it today is because of how breathtakingly beautiful it is, when it tries to be - when Baxter tries to portray the awesome grandeur of a vast universe, and not just the carnage. I've never read anything else quite like Exultant, and I doubt I ever will

[grayrazor]

Hey guys, I found this weird geometric object floating in space. Should I touch it?

[grayrazor]

Stephen Baxter/John Carpenter crossover where Satan from Prince of Darkness is actually a Xeelee Sequence Qax who crashed its spline on prehistoric Earth and got stranded.

[sahaquiel43]

silver ghosts in Xeelee be like: