As Houllebecq said in his bio of Lovecraft, his works contain “not a single allusion to two of the realities to which we generally ascribe great importance: sex and money." Gig Economy took on money, now GSH takes on sex.
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... to have a narrator who can so readily quote Borges, know obscure Irish pantheists like Scotus Eriugena and possess a Classicist’s knowledge of Greek mythology. It’s satisfying for the intellectually curious reader but more than a touch unbelievable.
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If @0x49fa98 ever does write a full-length commercial novel it would be great to see him develop in the area of character depth. However, what his stories lack in character depth they more than make up for it in idea depth. There is just so much here to even attempt to list.
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Sexbots, AI Gods, augmented reality taken to extreme, gamification of life, apps for every aspect of your life... I read GSH hoping that any developers weren’t reading it too as I don’t want them to actually bring some of the ideas into reality.
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The central theme - and the titular pun - of the story is how the acceleration of technology has caused a breakdown in relationships not only between humans but with any deity who may or may not have existed but who now is definitely dead in the Nietzschean sense.
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And from this God-shaped hole, strange new gods arise, for nature abhors a vacuum. Humanity hates the void too, and creates grotesque abominations to fill in the black hole where once lay something of greater substance.
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It’s really hard to review this story without giving too much away but I do recommend everyone give this a read. The ideas are electric and the writing is intense and full of imagery. The descriptions of the augmented worlds are positively exhilarating.
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Minor criticisms: At times the story does lapse into incoherence and the finale is quite sudden and flat following the same narrative structure as Gig Economy’s conclusion: a monologue, followed by a brief description and ending in an exclamation.
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I would love to see GSH extended into a full-length book where the ideas were built upon and we had more information about this world and the people in it. As it stands today, it’s 60% of one of the greatest modern horrors being written.
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I also hope this is only the beginning for
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The foundation is already out there with Gig Economy & now God-Shaped Hole. I wish to propose to
@0x49fa98 if he’s willing for other writers to share in this world-building with him, like how August Derleth and Robert Bloch continued Lovecraft’s Mythos. The results could be wildShow this thread -
I also hope these stories inspire others out there to write. Big publishing has effectively killed genuine imaginative writing and true talent now lies out there on twitter and other platforms waiting to be discovered and disseminated. “If there is hope, it lies in the frogs.”
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Here is the link to God-Shaped Hole. Dim the lights, get cosy, and immerse yourself while the nights are long and this decade comes to an end while an even stranger one lies ahead.https://zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2019/10/22/god-shaped-hole/ …
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