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Lovecraft seems to fall into similar tropes of the scifi age of his time. Space lasers, brains in jars, teleportation, things that come to mind of the old black and white scifi movies. Lovecraft isn't immune to this influence. His Yithians battle with guns that fire beams, the Mi-go can transport human minds across the cosmos with jars, it seems almost a folly that Lovecraft fall into these classic alien cliche. His work is so wildly different from standard sources that it feels like a seperate series, much like his Dreamland cycle. Looking at his aliens creatures we see weird geometry forms and strange things that worship alien gods. But we expect that in different species. The mind can always go into whatever direction it wants when it comes to fantasy creatures. But why go down the road of cliche when he had invented new avenues? Specifically, an uncaring pantheon mimicking the coldness of the universe and secrets that were never meant to be uncovered. Like many authors creating their universe, Lovecraft likely thought he needed more than humans to populate his stories. Similar to his gods in that they are mostly indifferent to humans and scarcely interfere with their happenings. Most of Lovecrafts stories happen in his now, his current world and technology. The latest advances of the 1920s and 30s. I only know of one short, "In the walls of Eryx" which has leanings into the future. A prospector on Venus beco.es trapped in a maze and slowly dies as the locals come to watch. From what I can see, Lovecraft placed less of an emphasis on his aliens and more on his gods, in a sense, he focused more on the alien spiritual aspect rather than futuristic technology.

I want to research this more.