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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Blindsight by Peter Watts (firewall series)

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds

Alien by Alan Dean Foster

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Thanks for the recs.

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Haven’t seen it suggested yet, so I’ll throw out Linda Nagata’s Inverted Frontier series. Without giving away too much, explorers on the periphery of a collapsed posthuman civilization launch an expedition back towards its center, and along the way find various eldritch monstrosities – of human origin and otherwise – as they try to solve the mystery of the collapse. It’s more thriller than horror in tone, but it checks your other boxes quite well.

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The Horus Heresy

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Although I wouldn’t consider it an amazing book by any means I found “Infinite” and its sequel very unsettling.

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Clark Ashton Smith has some cosmic horror stories fitting this description.

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