Existential dread? It can be a pretty exciting feeling. I like how the Kurtzgesagt educational channel on YouTube has it permeate their cosmology/astronomy videos. They even addressed it explicitly in their "nihilistic optimism" video.
If you like that feeling, read Stephen Baxter's work. Existential dread is the main character in a lot of it, it's quite something. The Xeelee Sequence especially comes to mind.
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Existential dread? It can be a pretty exciting feeling. I like how the Kurtzgesagt educational channel on YouTube has it permeate their cosmology/astronomy videos. They even addressed it explicitly in their "nihilistic optimism" video.
If you like that feeling, read Stephen Baxter's work. Existential dread is the main character in a lot of it, it's quite something. The Xeelee Sequence especially comes to mind.
My go to is works by Greg Egan (e.g. Diaspora and Schild's Ladder and Permutation City). Thanks for the suggestion, I will check out Baxter.
Always glad to share. I'll check out Greg Egan, I've heard the name a bunch of times but never actually got to his work yet.
He is my all time favourite science fiction author. If it's existential dread you're after he delivers it in spades.