Books

not yet! but i did watch the show, and i do plan to read the books, ESPECIALLY if they focus on the protomolecule and the ring builders a bit more, which it sounds like it might, the only two reasons i haven't yet is that it seems soo darn long! which isn't a bad thing, but i have a lot of books to read. the other reason is that i have a lot of trouble with violence and gore, and the show was really difficult to get through. So i worry that the books might explain some graphic things in great detail. And i might have to stop every once in a while due to nausea and vomiting.

I might also play or watch a playthrough of the recent expanse game that came out. Drummer was very cool in the show so i would imagine i'd enjoy the game even without the protomolecule and ring stuff going on.

I'll just have to read it and see!

:D these books are in my "cosmic stuff" book folder. I thought it would be somewhat interesting, i did hear some ideas like that were in there i am looking forward to it! Your description sounds most fascinating. It may not be a new book in my collection but at least i have a better idea of what books i want to read next, thanks!

OOOOOOOHHH this sounds like almost exactly what im looking for, there's even posthumans! This might be my next read before the rest of the suggestions here, or maybe i should save it for last just in case it's that good... HMMMM........

Oooh dangit expanse sounds even better now. And yes! i've read a couple 40k stories that i adored, i've read just about every adeptus mechanicus related book in my collection, i've read 2 or 3 of the horus heresy, and and a couple tau books, and books involving necrons.

There are some youtube videos i had watched of some interesting stories, like "Watcher in the rain" seemed super creepy, right up my alley. I will probably be making a folder for 40k horror stuff.

i should clarify "cosmic horror" for me is a MUCH broader concept in my mind than most think of it, for me, it encompasses so much more than just space gods beyond human understanding. i classify cosmic "entities" as anything out of control of humanity and of the "outside" in some vague sense, capitalism is a lovecraftian monster out of human control, it is not foreign to our world, but a.i. is also very similar in this regard, as is the weather/climate change, to a lesser extent. For me, the lovecraftian concepts in three body was the very idea of a dark forest, the idea that you fundamentally cannot know if the dark forest is in fact real, so they had to more or less assume it was, similar to that even if life is a simulation in order to prevent complete chaos we would still need to assume it's all real so we aren't just going crazy and doing ridiculous stuff on the off chance that it isn't a simulation and murder and such things did matter, such concepts no matter the authors beliefs on how it ends up are always VERY interesting to me.

Just from this line "what could make an ancient and powerful race so scared and helpless that they need to build an escape hatch in the universe?’" I am already curious and will probably grab the book shortly and read some later tonight.

I consume book therefore i am, maybe, probably, we'll see after i read X more books that further break down my preconceptions on everything i used to think i understood. Somehow i think i will just be less certain :P