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really amusing short story from Lovecraft, The idea of an invisible labirynth is really overtaking, I loved this story so much, and I was excited for the main character till the end!
This story lacks a lot of the "cosmic horror" Lovecraft is famous for, instead focusing on more conventional science fiction.
I was really expecting the crystal to be controlling the force fields, showing that no matter what the protagonist did he couldn't outsmart the "primitive" aliens and cold only escape by abandoning his prize and admitting defeat.
The ending ultimately makes him appear just as daft, but it's not quite as clever and ironic as I expect from this kind of story.
The most unusual book in Lovecrafts works, Scifi elements are well implemented and the narrative is so engaging, The labyrinth and its descriptions are unpleasantly vague, but everything else is good, In the Walls of Eryx
The Earthlings have come to Venus and have built a colony which they have called Terra nova.
On Venus there is life, a diverse fauna and flora, and an intelligent race of reptilian beings whose culture is not yet highly developed, although in some aspects such as architecture it seems much more advanced.
The main interest of men in Venus is a crystal that serves as a source of energy and is exclusive to Venus, a single crystal has energy to power a city, but the settlers are having trouble starting a massive mining because these crystals are sacred for the Venusians.
The protagonist advises bringing a detachment of soldiers and annihilating the entire native species to exploit the glass mines, something unfortunately too close to reality, it is just what some imperialist powers have done throughout history with the Petroleum countries or the socalled "rare earths" and "blood minerals.
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I would have liked this story more without the epilogue, without the epilogue I would have even claimed the figure of Lovecraft that as everyone knows sympathizes with the Nazi ideology and the supremacy of the Aryan race.
In the penultimate part of the story the character reflects on the scale Cosmic, no race is superior to another, when faced with death it changes its xenophobic posture and manifests an anticolonialist stance, but in the end this is ruled out as a delirium and plans for a total invasion and a Venusian Holocaust begin.
Докато наблюдавах отдалеч това сияние, си дадох сметка, че изпитвам съжаление към примитивните човекогущери, които сляпо обежествяваха кристалите,без ни наймалко да подозират за колосалната енергия, стаена в тях.И ние хората сляпо гоним парите,издигайки ги на пиадестал. Гоним ги в същите прозрачни лабиринти, блъскайки се от една стена в друга, докато не умрем или загубим разсъдъка си!
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In the Walls of Eryx is mostly told by a narrator whose name we find out only later in the story.
It takes place on Venus, in a strange building and he is after some kind of valuable crystal.
Right from the beginning we see something is seriously wrong with the place the protagonist is,
There is a corpse near him which he uses as a visual landmark to try to find out the way out of this labyrinth with invisible walls.
In time you really get to feel the claustrophobia and desperation slowly creeping in.
Occasional bursts of hope only make the situation worse, His oxygen, food and water supply begin to run out too and, to make everything worse, groups of lizardmen come out of the woods.
He soon realizes that the labyrinth was built by these creatures 'whose craft and mentality' humans underestimated.
Some might argue that what the humans on Venus decided to do afterwards is a bit harsh.
Some, not all. H. P. Lovecraft En los muros de Eryx/Within the Walls of Eryx takes place on Venus, the characters are members of a mining expedition, mining for crystals.
The area in which they are working has some dangerous native inhabitants and some dangerous plants, It is recommended that prospecting parties contain at least two members, but locally the thought is that the locals are not that dangerous and frequently forays of only one are made.
I didn't expect this to be SciFi, but I liked the atmosphere created for Venus I've reading all of Lovecraft stories and this one stood up as one of the best ones.
The setting is imaginative and the ending feels more focused on how garbage humanity is, Wordsworth Editions
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Did not enjoy this story as it is usual when I get lost in Lovecraft s pages.
This time it was not so much because there are no naked women but because I do not like science fiction of which a typical example is this story.
The layout is an autodiegetic/first person narrator with a heterodiegetic narrator at the end who finds the autodiegetic narrator s writings at the end.
The language is not so much atmospheric, this story was published in, it reminds a lot of Clark Ashton Smith s stories because it is situated on Venus, Those two were pals so they influenced each other a lot,
It is interesting that aboriginal dwellers of Venus are lizardlike intelligent creatures does a former football player from the Ilse of Wright pop up in mind
Me and my pal, Elon Musk, are going next year to Venus, if you want to join us you need to payturkish liras on my account.
Hasta luego!
sitelink youtube. com/watchvCXEf a very cool fiction There's many layers of irony in this story, some only emerging in retrospect.
We all know of Lovecraft's unfortunately prejudiced worldview even for a man of his time but did you know that he got a lot better in his final years He'd begun to feel shame about some of his previous opinions, and might well have grown up all the more had he had more time.
But he died before he could complete this journey, . . and almost everybody ended up latching on what he said and thought earlier on, forgetting or ignoring later developments.
Parallels! Most likely just me reading too much into it and grasping at straws, but still!
It's a good story, anyway.
Unusual for Lovecraft, what with the science fiction with almost no cosmic horrors in it, just loneliness and claustrophobia and a fair share of mutual xenophobia.
Quite short, a good read for everyone, Můj neoblíbenější žánr, Za ten svůj život jsem viděla, hrála i četla obrovské množství hororů a málo který mě už dokáže nějak překvapit.
Ale H. P. Lovecraft To je pro mě zaručená husí kůže, Fantastický: Último tomo de esta colección de colaboraciones, Incluye tres cuentos.
La exhumación, relato compartido con Duane W, Rimel, es bastante lovecraftniano. Interesante.
El diario de Alonzo Typer, de autoría compartida con William Lumley, un texto que podría incluirse dentro de los mitos de Cthulhu.
En los muros de Eryx, colaboración con Kenneth Sterling, un relato espacial, sin dudas atípico en la literatura de Lovecraft.
Buenísima ambientación y descripción de los detalles pero hubiese preferido una novela y no un cuento.
Enjoyable comeuppance tale up to the very end, anyway, where the arrogant human is caught in a sophisticated trap devised by the "primitive" natives.
Of course, if the fellow had carried, say, rope with him, or had ever heard of the righthandrule for getting out of mazes, the trap would not have worked so well.
I was disappointed that it was really just a physical maze, and not something that changed in response to the crystal making it so the opening closed for anyone holding a crystal would have been brilliant.
Ah, well. Still worth reading. A rare future scifi lovecraft short, amazing and you can feel the anxieties of the main character easily.
Short and perfect eerie look into encountering new beings, "Let us leave to Venus that which belongs only to Venus, "
A chilling scifi tale, which despite some suspense and foreboding lands quite far afield from Lovecraft's usual fare.
In fact, had I not known Lovecraft wrote it, I almost certainly couldn't have guessed, The theme really boils down to a biting critique of humanity's hubris and destructive instincts in the face of the alien or unknown, a theme that would become popular in the scifi of decades to come.
"In the Walls of Eryx" is a short story by H, P. Lovecraft, written in Januaryand first published in Weird Tales magazine in October, It is unusual among Lovecraft's work as a standard science fiction story involving space exploration in the near future.
The story, written in firstperson narrative, depicts the life and death of a prospector on the planet Venus who, while working for a mining company, becomes trapped in an invisible maze.
Great straight scifi from the Master, Lovecraftof: In the Walls of Eryx with Kenneth Sterling
“Staring back at these grotesque and unexpected intruders, and wondering uneasily why they did not attack me at once, I lost for the time being the will power and nervous energy to continue my search for a way out.
Instead I leaned limply against the invisible wall of the passage where I stood, letting my wonder merge gradually into a chain of the wildest speculations.
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Eryx Walls by Pablo P, Quadros
In the Walls of Eryx is the most straightforwardly sciencefiction story that Lovecraft ever worked on, at least in the pulpy style of thes.
The action entirely takes place on Venus and our narrator carries a “flame pistol” to fight off the native population.
Its worth reading for fans of early scifi and people interested in Lovecraft,
In the walls of Eryx by Bruno Senigalha
Eryx is arguably therd oldest extant story by American weird fiction author Howard Philips Lovecraftand the only one that he collaborated on with Kenneth J.
Sterling. I have been reading all of HPLs fictional works in chronological order this year to see his development as a writer.
Eryx comes after Lovecrafts last original story The Haunter of the Dark and before the last story that the old gent ever worked on, The Night Ocean revised for R.
H. Barlow. According to Joshi amp Schultz, the young Sterling was a big fan of weird fiction and, after moving to Providence, Rhode Island, boldly went to Lovecrafts home in Marchto introduce himself.
Sterling was onlyat the time and HPL was, The two formed a friendship, or at least a mentor/mentee relationship, In January of, Sterling sent Lovecraft a draft of Eryx that was around,,words, The older man proceeded to rewrite the story, increasing its length to,words, While most of the resulting provide probably belongs to HPL, he appears to have “tried to preserve as much of Sterlings own prose, and certainly his ideas, as possible” p.
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I like Eryx, The Venus setting is absurd given what we know about that particular planet, but in the mids, mankind really did not have much knowledge on the subject with “some astronomers believing it to be steamy and swampy” p.
on the surface as Sterling and HPL depict here, The prose is very strong, with Lovecraft really at the top of his game at this point in his life.
The invisible maze, an idea that Sterling was responsible for, is an interesting concept and the narrators struggles inside of it are effectively suspenseful.
I also like the apparent parallels to European colonization, The human protagonist Kenton J, Stanfield is arrogant and clearly has bigotted views of the “man lizards'' that are the only sentient life forms of the planet that he is plundering.
As the narrative progresses, he develops a respect for the natives, “In the scale of cosmic entity who can say which species stands higher, or more nearly approaches a spacewide organic normtheirs or mine” I would like to think that this reflects a softening of HPLs own racist views as he reached the end of his life.
Admittedly, Eryx has some flaws common to its brand of pulp scifi, The alien lifeforms are a little silly and, as Chris Lackeyof the H, P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast points out in one episode, the invisible walls dont entirely make sense,
In the Walls of EryxNathan E Lilly
Lovecraft and Sterling continued to correspond until the older writers death from cancer in March.
Sterling continued to show great promise for the rest of his life, entering Harvard University in the fall ofwhen he was only.
He published his first scientific paper as an undergraduate at only ageand went on to become an important research scientist and medical doctor.
He wrote a short memoir about his friendship with Lovecraft called “Lovecraft and Science” and inwrote a longer memoir titled “Caverns Measureless to Man.
” According to Joshi amp Schultz, he urged that Lovecraft be “remembered as a scholar and a thinker as well as an author” p.
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”Carbon copy with manuscript corrections, Story written in collaboration with Kenneth Sterling in January, This typescript was probably prepared by Sterling, There is a manuscript note on the cover sheet in Sterling's hand: "First carbon copy Blue Book / Argosy.
Original typed copy Astounding / Wonder, Second carbon copy Weird / Amazing, " First published in Weird Tales,, No,Oct. ”
Title: In the Walls of Eryx
Author: H, P. Lovecraft amp Kenneth J. Sterling
Dates: Januarywritten, Octoberfirst published
Genre: Fiction Novelette, science fiction, horror
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Emrys, R. , amp Pillsworth, A. M., October. Successful Pulp Heroes Need to be More Genre Savvy: “In the Walls of Eryx”, TOR. COM sitelink tor. comlovecr
Fifer, C, amp Lackey, C., June. EpisodeIn the Walls of Eryx, The H. P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast audio blog, Retrieved from
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Joshi, S, T. , amp Schultz, D. E An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia. Greenwood Press.
Sterling, Kenneth, "In the Walls of Eryx" Howard P, Lovecraft collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. sitelink library. brown. edu/
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