Transformed into Cosmic Horror in a Sci-Fi Universe

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‘The moment I faced its enormous eye, an unbearable headache struck me. Just by facing it, the amount of information exceeded what my brain could handle.’

Excerpt from ‘Things I Encountered in Space’ by Terra race space adventurer ‘Con Arche’.

…No, I was just looking out of curiosity…?

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SF세계 속 코즈믹 호러가 되었다
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Dreyerboys
Dreyerboys
August 17, 2024
Status: c15
I'm conflicted. I want to like this novel, I really do, but something about it just feels... off. Not that it's bad, just not what I was expecting.

Read it if you want, you might like it, but here are my criticisms based on what little is available. However, let me preface that by saying, that there are too few chapters to truly judge this novel. So, take my words with a grain of salt.

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The translation and writing are good, but it doesn't feel like I'm reading about an omnipotent and omniscient Outer God. It feels like I'm reading about an Outer God mimicking a human. Or, reading about an Outer God through a human's perspective. Which, I suppose, is what you'd expect after reading the first chapter, but it's still disappointing.

In literally the first chapter, he creates a mortal, human-like clone of himself to integrate with the different mortal races of the universe. Why? Because he was bored for 10 minutes.

What a waste of potential...

You can literally do anything, but you choose what I think is the worst possible route.

Some people may like that, but to them, I'd recommend reading about literally any other magic/fantasy/sci-fi action-adventure novel. Why read about a literal God who can erase the universe with a thought, exploring the Galactic Union or whatever, trying to mesh with humans and go on adventures like a normal person? Just read anything else.

Granted, there's probably some plot about why the MC, a former human, was born as an Omnipotent Outer God (which he somehow doesn't know, but whatever. Plot.) and how he needed that mindset to do... whatever he was meant to do, but no matter what it is, there has to be a better way to start things.

The MC is omniscient. He can live an infinite number of human lives if he wanted to and nothing would change.

While he does turn that off for his clone (or at least limit it), it's still there. He can do anything, know anything, and there will be no consequences. Everything is within reach. He's a god in every sense of the word.

So, there's no point to adventuring. There's no point in learning. There's no point in fighting.

You can't even use the excuse that he can learn about various concepts, or study lifeforms while being amongst mortals.

He has true Omnipotence and Omniscience. Meaning, he knows EVERYTHING and can do ANYTHING. There is literally nothing humans or any other mortal race can teach him.

Even when he meets other Outer Gods, it's disappointing.

Maybe I just have the wrong perception of Lovecraftian Gods, but from what I understand, they're nothing like this.

They aren't like humans. I get they have their peculiarities and various powers, but they are fundamentally different.

However, this novel goes on and personifies them, humanifies them. I'm not fond of that.

Why write a novel about Eldritch Horror Gods when they just act like extremely strong humans?

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LoneRabbit
LoneRabbit rated it
August 5, 2024
Status: c10
Love it so far.

MC is overpowered as expected of an outer god and the sci-fi setting is a surprisingly great backdrop for the Cthulhu mythos. Here in this sci-fi world, outer gods are treated as natural disasters but are not as mysterious as other Lovecraft works. Outer gods are categorized into different categories with the lowest ranking ones being undeserving of the title since all they really do is cause destruction like giant planet sized monsters. MC belongs to the high-ranking category maybe even highest, he is omnipotent and omniscient.... more>> I really like how the author showcases omniscience, it feels like true omniscience rather than the usual "seeing information people can't" type in other novels.

Don't really know what direction the author will take but the most obvious one is exploration of the sci-fi world and maybe magic fantasy world. The races introduced so far are the technologically advanced one, the magic one and the regular Earth one.

Writing and translation has been great and it doesn't drag on with info dumps. <<less
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Just_D_O_G
Just_D_O_G
September 13, 2024
Status: --
Pretty good I guess, protagonist feels human despite changing into n outer god, yet the writing feels a little bit off at the same time, especially with the whole clone body
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rcpsycho
rcpsycho rated it
November 20, 2024
Status: c62
Overall a fun read, but best not to be taken too seriously.

Effectively, the novel tries to answer the question "what would you do if you were nearly omniscient and omnipotent (including being able to limit your omniscience if you want to) ".

So the MC goes around and tries out a bunch of things including creating universes, new life forms, and recreating fantasy tropes just to see what would happen. Just like readers in reality like reading novels, who wouldn't want to create a fully functional universe instead of being limited... more>> to observe what's written and imagine the rest?

And over the course of the story, he gains more awareness of being an outer god who can toy with entire universes, and sheds some of his identity as a mortal which was still pretty strong in the first chapters.

It's not exactly existential horror, although the powerlessness of just about everything else in front of him is highlighted on occasional and written reasonably well.

While it's not the main focus of the story, there are occasional ethical dilemmas, questioning the extent to which outer gods have the "right" to interfere with mortals and their universes, and emphasising that it's not that different from how humans treat insects or even much smaller life forms. We are equally as incomprehensible in size and intellect to them as outer gods to us, so should we reconsider our actions or are outer gods justified in their indifference? <<less
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Taffy91
Taffy91 rated it
October 27, 2024
Status: c53
While probably not an excellent story due to its meandering structure & lack of emotional stakes, I disagree with the other reviewers: ... more>>
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Shortly after ch. 15, the MC leaves his morality behind quite quickly: the story starts to revolve around him experimenting with entire universes out of sheer boredom. For example, he creates a hunter world, a copy of the space world, etc., and is not kind to the inhabitants.

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The author really does his best to utilize and have fun with the whole "outer god" concept, and while I probably won't be reading further, I don't regret the time I've spent with it. <<less
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