The Universe may not be a nice neighborhood oldest & strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown the grand master of horror HP Lovecraft once wrote & the greatest unknown is the vast universe shrouded in eternal cosmic night What things might be on other planets
- or in the dark gulfs between the stars? Giving very unsettling answers to that question are such writers as Ray Bradbury Arthur C Clarke Robert Sheckley Philip K Dick James H Schmitz Clark Ashton Smith Cyril M Kornbluth Alastair Reynolds Neal Asher Sarah A Hoyt & more all equally masters of science fiction & of terror