Item #70209 After Engulfment: Cosmicism and Neocosmicism in H.P. Lovecrafy, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein and Frank Herbert. Ellen J. Greenham.

After Engulfment: Cosmicism and Neocosmicism in H.P. Lovecrafy, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein and Frank Herbert

Hippocampus Press:
New York: 2022
Trade paperback, New,
341 pp.
Cover artwork by: Dan Sauer

“In this pioneering work of criticism, spanning the genres of weird fiction and science fiction, Ellen J. Greenham examines H. P. Lovecraft’s influence on canonical science fiction writers and the use of Lovecraft’s cosmicism as a lens through which selected works by Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, and Frank Herbert can be interpreted. Put simply, After Engulfment examines the experience of being human in an impersonal universe. In Greenham’s analysis, Lovecraft’s cosmicism offers human beings limited options in madness or death as responses to the inescapable revelation of their own insignificance and ephemerality in the universe. The neocosmicism of Dick, Heinlein, and Herbert offers another pathway in the framework for how humans might respond when facing engulfment.” #70209

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