Anyone know any authors with elaborate fictitious cosmological lore?
For example: HP Lovecraft, Tolkien (Silmarillion), even Andrew Hussie (Homestuck)
William Blake
the Jews
the Greeks
the Egyptians
>>7978684
You told him. Kek.
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"Orthogonal is a science fiction trilogy by Australian author Greg Egan taking place in a universe where, rather than three dimensions of space and one of time, there are four fundamentally identical dimensions."
The Bible
>>7978662
Night - Eli Weisel
>>7978809
top burn
also I guess were not mentioning PKD for some readon
>>7978823
PKD is the GOAT!!
>>7978662
Star Maker, by Olaf Stapledon
Thank me later
>>7978823
What's some good Philip K. Dick cosmology stuff?
I got 5 chapters into Ubik and realized it was all about a bureaucracy until then. Not sure if it gets better.
>>7979251
Here are a couple things to look at:
http://montalk.net/cosmogony.html
http://www.tekgnostics.com/PDK.HTM#.VyOX2nqv_SY
>>7978662
Greg Stafford's Glorantha is probably the best fantasy setting in existence.
The dude's an anthropologist, specializing in mythology. He creates cultures that feel real, that you want to get into, even though they're just bizarre enough to be alien.
It's bronze age, not at all Tolkien.
He's been working on it since the 60s, if I remember correctly.
It's primarily a setting for tabletop roleplaying games. RuneQuest is hella good.
I don't know so much about his actual books (I think he's got a novel or two and there's a webcomic written by someone else), but if you're into /tg/ at all, or even just want to see what a good fantasy setting is like, I'd suggest checking Glorantha out.
I can't overstate how fucking rad it is.
There's a great vidya gaem called King of Dragon Pass that's a neat intro to the setting.
>>7978662
surely terry pratchett is the most famous example
