Blindsight
Peter Watts
2006
Books with the “Cosmic” trope
Horror about vast, indifferent cosmic forces that drive humans mad when they glimpse them.
Genre tropes · Cosmic
Books with this trope
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
2008
The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin
2020
The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers
1895
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
H. P. Lovecraft
1999
The Fisherman
John Langan
2016
The Ballad of Black Tom
Victor LaValle
2016
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
2014
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