Colour Out of Space

drew hempel · 09-18-2007, 02:40 PM

Colour Out of Space is H.P. Lovecraft's best short story.... I think. Anyway the below news article about a meteorite having a sickening deadly smell is exactly the same as the Lovecraft story....

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/s...44-912,00.html

Isaiah Mpski · 09-19-2007, 03:45 AM

Drew,I ordered an ultrasound machine today.
Do you prefer juan or too wheeled tricycles?

Sincerely,your friend

bopes · 09-20-2007, 07:00 AM

cool shot of the crater here, along with various alternative theories debunking a meteoritic origin.

BigMonkey · 10-05-2007, 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drew hempel

Colour Out of Space is H.P. Lovecraft's best short story.... I think. Anyway the below news article about a meteorite having a sickening deadly smell is exactly the same as the Lovecraft story....

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/s...44-912,00.html

I picked this up this past summer at a used book sale. A meteorite falls in the Peru/Bolivia border area, makes a lot of local people sick, and introduces an ancient form of consciousness into the mind of one local man - a viral infection that gives him a deeper understanding of the structure of the cosmos. He becomes a new "Inca", and this is understood as a recurrence of similar events from the past. The book goes much further, investigating an unknown life form of the same sort existing on Mars.

Seemed synchronistic to me.

drew hempel · 10-06-2007, 03:21 PM

Wow -- surprised I haven't seen mention of that anywhere else online....let's see... http://www.amazon.com/Martian-Inca-I...1714689&sr=1-1

Wow there doesn't seem to be any mention on Ian Watson's website (I checked his news section) and the only other mention is on a Bad Astronomy forum and maybe on a spanish site that didn't load...amazing.

Oahspe · 10-18-2007, 01:30 PM

http://tania.be.linux.org/mirrors/ww...orks/index.htm
complete works (i think) of h.p. lovecraft

ahh... the internet..

Oahspe · 10-20-2007, 02:35 PM

prompted by this thread, I am reading 'the colour out of space' .
it is pretty good. Personally my favorite H.P. Lovecraft story out of the ones I have read so far would have to be "Dreams in the Witch House"...

09-18-2007, 02:40 PM	#1
drew hempel Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: minneapolis Posts: 1,618	Colour Out of Space Colour Out of Space is H.P. Lovecraft's best short story.... I think. Anyway the below news article about a meteorite having a sickening deadly smell is exactly the same as the Lovecraft story.... http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/s...44-912,00.html

09-19-2007, 03:45 AM	#2
Isaiah Mpski Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Eufaula,Oklahoma Posts: 3,563	reality Drew,I ordered an ultrasound machine today. Do you prefer juan or too wheeled tricycles? Sincerely,your friend

09-20-2007, 07:00 AM	#3
bopes Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 469	cool shot of the crater here, along with various alternative theories debunking a meteoritic origin. Last edited by bopes; 09-20-2007 at 07:06 AM.

10-06-2007, 03:21 PM	#5
drew hempel Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: minneapolis Posts: 1,618	Wow -- surprised I haven't seen mention of that anywhere else online....let's see... http://www.amazon.com/Martian-Inca-I...1714689&sr=1-1 Wow there doesn't seem to be any mention on Ian Watson's website (I checked his news section) and the only other mention is on a Bad Astronomy forum and maybe on a spanish site that didn't load...amazing. Last edited by drew hempel; 10-06-2007 at 03:28 PM.

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10-18-2007, 01:30 PM	#6
Oahspe Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 37	http://tania.be.linux.org/mirrors/ww...orks/index.htm complete works (i think) of h.p. lovecraft ahh... the internet..

10-20-2007, 02:35 PM	#7
Oahspe Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Maryland, USA Posts: 37	prompted by this thread, I am reading 'the colour out of space' . it is pretty good. Personally my favorite H.P. Lovecraft story out of the ones I have read so far would have to be "Dreams in the Witch House"...