A review by ctgt
Ride the Star Wind: Cthulhu, Space Opera, and the Cosmic Weird by Wendy Dunlap, J. Edward Tremlett, Ada Hoffmann, Nadia Bulkin, DaVaun Sanders, Richard Lee Byers, Brian Evenson, Desirina Boskovich, Angus McIntyre, Tom Dullemond, Remy Nakamura, Scott Gable, Wendy Nikel, J.E. Bates, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Wendy N. Wagner, Robert White, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Cody Goodfellow, Lucy A. Snyder, D.W. Baldwin, Bogi Takács, C. Dombrowski, Premee Mohamed, Gord Sellar, Tim Curran, Heather Hatch, Heather Terry, Brandon O'Brien, Ingrid Garcia, Kara Dennison
4.0
The time of skinturning is at hand, may God help us all.
I stumbled across this collection while lurking around the Lovecraft ezine site and was immediately drawn to the concept......Cthulhu, weird mythos(even a Yellow King appearance) all set in space. I couldn't think of any Lovecraft story I had read like that, much less a whole collection. And this has it all, military sci/fi, space exploration, first contact, starships, aliens- pretty much the gamut of science fiction. As with most collections there are some great stories and some that didn't work for me but overall it was a solid collection.
Some of my favorites
Blossoms Blackened Like Dead Stars- Lucy A. Snyder
Vol de Nuit- Gord Sellar
Lord of the Vats- Brian Evenson
Be On Your Way- Heather Hatch
Cargo- Desirina Boskovich
The Blood Will Come Later- DaVaun Sanders
Starship in the Night Sky- D. W. Baldwin
Departure Beach- Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
When Yiggrath Comes- Tim Curran
and ending with a bang
A Dream, and a Monster at the End Of It- Nadia Bulkin
Well worth the time
7/10
The skull was dead, of course, but the feeling he got was that it was not dead enough.
I stumbled across this collection while lurking around the Lovecraft ezine site and was immediately drawn to the concept......Cthulhu, weird mythos(even a Yellow King appearance) all set in space. I couldn't think of any Lovecraft story I had read like that, much less a whole collection. And this has it all, military sci/fi, space exploration, first contact, starships, aliens- pretty much the gamut of science fiction. As with most collections there are some great stories and some that didn't work for me but overall it was a solid collection.
Some of my favorites
Blossoms Blackened Like Dead Stars- Lucy A. Snyder
Vol de Nuit- Gord Sellar
Lord of the Vats- Brian Evenson
Be On Your Way- Heather Hatch
Cargo- Desirina Boskovich
The Blood Will Come Later- DaVaun Sanders
Starship in the Night Sky- D. W. Baldwin
Departure Beach- Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
When Yiggrath Comes- Tim Curran
and ending with a bang
A Dream, and a Monster at the End Of It- Nadia Bulkin
Well worth the time
7/10
The skull was dead, of course, but the feeling he got was that it was not dead enough.