Book recommendations for cosmic horror on a spaceship (lemmy.world)

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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.

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[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Blindsight by Peter Watts (firewall series)

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds

Alien by Alan Dean Foster

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the recs.

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