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On Safari in R’leyh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera by Elizabeth Bear

Greer Griswold, physics professor, is an adopted orphan, so when she gets a DNA test she’s very curious about the result. She ends up with more than twice as much Neanderthal than almost anyone else and a big chunk that is unidentified.

This leads her and her friend Roberts on an adventure, trying to find out the source of her genetics via someone who has looked into it before and a remote New England ruin to a city in a cosmos where even geometry can’t be relied on.

Read This: For a funny modern look at some Lovecraftian themes, seen through a lens of curiosity and even joy rather than existential terror
Don’t Read This: If you don’t care about going to alien places in this world or others