Hellhounds of the Cosmos

Prolific author Clifford D. Simak has been on my \”must-read\” radar since as a child I read \”Way Station.\” His story \”Hellhounds of the Cosmos\” appeared in ASTOUNDING STORIES Magazine in June 1932. Reading it in 2020, it\’s amazing how Lovecraftian it seems. The dimensional device constructed by Dr. Silas White could be one readily found throughout Lovecraft. Simak\’s descriptions of the Fourth Dimension are if not familiar, at least resonant, with HPL\’s descriptions of elsewhere. Dr. White\’s single-minded determination, theorizing about dimensional devolution, and eventual fate, strongly resonate with Lovecraft\’s protagonists, who so often go insane when they confront Other Dimensions. \”Hellhounds of the Cosmos \” is a fast but quite thought-provoking read.

simak is a good sf writer, but this just didn\’t seem very interesting and i even read it all. good time filler unless you are a simak fan and have to read all he\’s written.

Clifford D. Simak is a grandmaster fantasy and science fiction author and this was one of his earliest works. Fun read.

I read this many years ago, then read everything I could find by Simak. Found this one on here and decided to try it again. It\’s still as good as it was the first time.

A very good short story that covers the entire world in its scope. I began, thinking it would be a off copy of the hounds of thandlos (pardon the misspelling), but this tale stood on its own originality.

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