I've been looking forward to reading this for a while because I love cosmic horror and sci fi, but unfortunately a lot of writers in this anthology I guess thought by Lovecraft it meant awful goddamn writing and editing instead which is fair. This book was a slog and took me forever to read because once I was about a third of the way through I realized what I was dealing with.There are 38 stories and poems in this book. Just 6 of them are good.A lot of this is down to the editing and selection p...

When I told my brother about this book, his initial response (he was barely listening to me) was a derisive snort. I immediately vowed to read this book, just to show him that he shouldn't be so judgmental (he hadn't even seen the cover after all). So it is with a sigh that I pass judgment on this book after having read it, every page, from cover to cover. Including all the poetry. Every line of every poem.I had only ever heard of one of these authors and had not read a single piece by any of th...

Problems with the book1- most of the stories are subpar - the main problem is very common, lack of pay off. "The new roanork colony" for instance finishes almost midsentence.2- many stories, unfortunately, were shoved in the collection, with poor editor´s choice - there is an interesting story, from a nigerian author about a new aids mutant plague. But no lovecraftian element at all. Just random. I think none of the stories use a lovecraftian writing style. Many of the stories just use names lik...

Meh

Edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles The Cthulhu Mythos gets flung far ahead in space and in time, and you’ll definitely get your money’s worth from this vast collection of stories that explore Lovecraftian monsters invading humanity’s future, as well as aliens, other worlds and very trippy dimensions. Exploring both inner and outer space, it’s likely that more than one story that will stay with you. There are more than a couple involving insane astronauts and doomed spaceships, bu...

A better-than-average Lovecraftian anthology; the median story is pretty darned good, and there are a couple of stunners here. (As usual, there are also a couple of stinkers -- and predictably, they're the ones that left the social-commentary-lecture aspect of the writing overshadow the actual story.)

An anthology of Lovecraft-inspired SF that doesn't feel much like Lovecraft.There's a fair amount of stories and poetry here, and some of them aren't bad, but none of them really grabbed me. I think it's because the writers don't seem to get what makes a good Lovecraft story, or if they do, they aren't given the length to do it right.Lovecraft starts out slow and normal, and lets the horrors mount. Most of the stories here don't have enough length to do so, and without that slow build up its har...

Some nice futuristic takes on the Mythos - but not really Lovecraftian, just the setting. Think "Granma" or "Crouch's End" by King instead of Dunwich Horror. .As with most compilations, this is a diverse collection of stories. Some passed by without much impact, but a couple of them were really enjoyable. Especially Tloque Nahuaque, but I think you need to be Mexican (or at least well versed in the Nahuatl mythology) to really enjoy it much. So... maybe recommended to all my fellow Mexican Lovec...

I picked this up solely due to the title - the idea of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos in futuristic environments seemed like a can't miss idea. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a can't hit. That's not to say the stories are bad (and I don't consider myself a fair judge of the poetry), but none are stellar. Only one, The Labyrinth of Sleep (a mashup of Cthulhu and Inception) sparked at all, and while I've got fragments of some of the other stories still in mind, my overall impression of the book is...

I found a large number of the first few stories either uninteresting or poorly done, lacking that Lovecraftian feel despite obviously trying for it. The quality seemed to improve about half-way through, with the stories thereafter displaying a much better crafting as well as capturing more effectively the namesake feeling. I am afraid I was not a fan of any of the poetry, that I recall.

I keep going back and forth on how to review this book. Boiled down I only read 10 of the 40 stories and of those 10 I only found 3 to be enjoyable. Harmony Amid the Stars, had so much of what I love about space horror. The Comet Called Ithaqua, an inventive take on one of my favorite mythological creatures. Skin, a subtle horror that would have been perfect if not for the very end. As for the other stories, most of them felt incomplete or read as a sci-fi piece with some Lovecraftian figures

"Future Lovecraft" was definitely an interesting and worthwhile read. While the overall rating is at 4 stars, there were several stories which I would emphatically give 5 stars to, such as "Harmony Amid The Stars" by Ada Hoffmann, "This Son Is Not For You" by A.D. Cahill, and "The Labyrinth of Sleep" by Orrin Grey. The editors made some fantastic selections, ranging from die-hard Lovecraft tributes to imaginative explorations of the future and our psyche. There were a few short-stories and poems...

I just couldn't finish this book. I read through a good portion of it but I just found the majority of entries to be terribly boring or just plain uninteresting. I did enjoy a couple of the stories which is why I didn't rate the book a one star. Overall I was very disappointed. Perhaps some day I will try to finish but honestly I don't think I will.

What is the future of Lovecraft? Although they don’t express the intention explicitly, the editors of Future Lovecraft have not only produced a quality collection of Lovecraft-related science fiction, but have done a fantastic job of selecting stories that raise that very question. Interest in Lovecraft is flourishing, and may now be greater than at any prior point in history. The iconic elements of the Mythos have moved beyond cult status into popular awareness, becoming cultural touchstones wi...

Lovecrafty stuff in scifi contexts. That means different things for different stories. The "lovecraft" part of this book stands out differently depending on the story, including such elements as: the verbose writing style, the supernatural monsters, gothic or macabre elements, even a couple poems/Dunsanian fantasy influenced bits as well. The "future" depends on the story, but a lot of them are in space. Rarely however are the "Gods" reduced to some scientifically comprehensible beings. Their in...

my problem with this collection is that even though there were some good to great sci fi stories there weren't very many that felt Lovecrafty to me, which is a bit of a problem when that's the point of the collection. one of the stories is about a guy who thinks he's the last survivor on earth after a mutation of AIDS kills everyone in the towns around him. maybe i missed something but that's not incredibly Lovecraftian, it's not even really scifi. i also feel like some of the stories seem rushe...

This book is a great example of what's possible for Indie publishers. The book looks great, was pretty clean, and the stories were solid. I can definitely see what it's been picked up for larger distribution.I had just a couple personal sticky points when it came to this anthology. From the cover, I was expecting more hard sci fi/mythos stories, and there was a lot more soft SF/Fantasy than I usually like with my tentacles. Obviously that's a very subjsctive statement; your mileage will vary.Sec...

I debated over the 2/3 stars and settled with 3 because I suspect my biases concerning the theme played a role in how I felt reading this collection. I really enjoy the anthologies that Innsmouth Free Press puts together. I discovered that I'd overlooked this one somewhere along the way. I would blame at least one missing star from this rating on my generally picky disposition when it comes to this stuff. I have a low tolerance for two types of Mythos fiction--the Dunsanian sort (think Dreamland...

One of the great elements of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos (an unofficial ‘shared world’ setting where uncaring alien gods drive humanity mad merely at us understanding their nature, gods who will eventually destroy us and not even noticed when they do so because we are that insignificant) is that it is a setting that translates so well across so many genres. In the last decade we’ve seen Hard-Boilded Noir Cthulhu, Wild West Cthulhu, Historical Cthulhu, Romance Cthulhu and many others. Because...

I didn't like these stories much. And I think it's because the authors simply took Lovecraftian names and plugged them in to sci-fi stories. Now, there's nothing inherently wrong with that in theory, but the reason I read Lovecraft is for the STYLE of writing. This book featured pretty standard-issue sci-fi stories featuring Cthulu; they weren't stories about Cthulu set in the future, if you see my meaning. And I also read Lovecraft because it's primarily horror with some sci-fi thrown in. These...