Scary extra-solar planets, are the stars right?
So, for a long time I didn't really get H.P.Lovecraft , the author of a bunch of books and short stories set in a mythos that has been used by many authors since. Even if you've never read anything by him, I hope you've at least heard the name Cthulhu at some point. The problem is that the sense of cosmic dread that he sought to convey in his works didn't really work with me. I've grown up knowing of the vast voids between the stars. I've always, for as long as I've known about history, known that history began long before mankind was around and that the time between the first campfire and the present day is just a small slice of all the time that came before. All this familiarity means that I can't really appreciate his works the way that maybe people at the time could, familiarity breeds contempt. The first time I really got a taste of real cosmic dread was when I ran into the concept of Boltzman brain's . To explain it simply, if the un