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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Shey" data-source="post: 8809193" data-attributes="member: 7026617">I think Stross actually has an interesting take on it: his Deep Ones are not intrinsically evil entities (nor his Cthonians), just long time dwellers who are not interested in dealing with crap from the newbie surface dwellers.&nbsp; His take is that Lovecraft and his cohort are filtering events through their own prejudices and problems.&nbsp; That said, the actual Lovecraftian gods are every bit as awful&nbsp; as ever--even C'thulhu which is a rather different sort of entity in Stross' work is just appalling, and Nyarlathotep is better only to the degree that he considers humanity fun toys and useful pets rather than something to be exterminated.So there's room to say that Lovecraft had some understanding of the terror that was behind the facade of the world, but that he was generally bad at separating off the genuinely evil from the merely alien (the Great Race of Yith notwithstanding).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Thomas Shey, post: 8809193, member: 7026617"] I think Stross actually has an interesting take on it: his Deep Ones are not intrinsically evil entities (nor his Cthonians), just long time dwellers who are not interested in dealing with crap from the newbie surface dwellers. His take is that Lovecraft and his cohort are filtering events through their own prejudices and problems. That said, the actual Lovecraftian gods are every bit as awful as ever--even C'thulhu which is a rather different sort of entity in Stross' work is just appalling, and Nyarlathotep is better only to the degree that he considers humanity fun toys and useful pets rather than something to be exterminated. So there's room to say that Lovecraft had some understanding of the terror that was behind the facade of the world, but that he was generally bad at separating off the genuinely evil from the merely alien (the Great Race of Yith notwithstanding). [/QUOTE]

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