I'm on a cosmic horror kick, after watching that video I posted. I just finished Bird Box which was pretty damn great. Super creepy, and creative plot. If I'm going for favorite recent book in that genre I'd still take Annihilation though. Any cosmic horror suggestions hubski?
Sun-Joo Shin, The Logical Status of Diagrams. He objects to the traditional distrust of diagrams in math, and the notion that they can be used as illustrations but not as proofs. He constructs a sound and complete logic based on Venn diagrams to argue that you can do visual proofs. It's a monadic first-order logic (predicates can only have one variable), so you can't express much with it, and drawing pictures is much more cumbersome than writing down expressions, but as a proof of concept it works. You can, indeed, turn the Venn diagrams everyone who does applied logic in contexts where not everyone has taken a logic class hates into a proper logic. She's moved on to other things now, but Subterranean did a two-volume collection of Caitlin R. Kiernan's mostly-Lovecraftian horror stories. The first is Two Worlds and In Between, the second is Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea.Any cosmic horror suggestions hubski?
I'm in bed right now, with a bit of a bug, catching up on some of my comics. I'm about two years behind in The Valiant universe (forget about Marvel and DC). I have almost all of the trades but there are a few gaps. I'm waiting for my local comic shop to get them in for me, but they're taking forever. I'm thinking about seeing if someone else has them in. If so, I'll pick them up. If my local comic shop ends up getting them in, I'll still pick them up. I'll just give them to PlaceboEffect. His collection is pretty sparse.
I read the trilogy almost 20 years ago. I borrowed it to who later would be my boss, after a several hour conversation about the book during a road trip. We never talked about it afterwards and he never asked about the 2 other books. I enjoyed it, back when I used to spend a lot of money on books.