Which was inspired by scientific accounts of the physical effects of radiation that Lovecraft had read.
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jcr@jlai.lu 4 weeks ago
You just summarized the short “Colour out of space” by HPL
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Apart from “being summoned” yeah. No desire or consciousness just a thing that modifies everything around it by nature. It doesn’t care that it drives animals insane or turns them into monsters, because it’s probably not aware of what an animal is to begin with.
Also kinda coincidental that Color Out of Space makes plants bigger. Before we had better gene editing methods, scientists used radiation to trigger mutations plants attempting to find some mutations that, among other things, made the fruit bigger lol
scytale@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Sounds similar to the film adaptation of the Annihilation novel.