Human Smallness in Cosmic Time

The Colour Out of Space

This flow traces how the book’s narratives reduce human certainty by placing individuals inside forces and histories far beyond their scale.

increasing

Bearing strength in each event

decreasing

A Colour Beyond Naming A Colour Beyond Naming from "The Colour Out of Space". Beyond the Human Palette A New Kind of Matter The meteorite contains a colour the scientists can identify only through analogy, not ordinary description.

A Colour Beyond Naming from "The Colour Out of Space". Beyond the Human Palette A New Kind of Matter The meteorite contains a colour the scientists can identify only through analogy, not ordinary description.

Beyond the Human Palette A New Kind of Matter The meteorite contains a colour the scientists can identify only through analogy, not ordinary description. Limits of Language The phenomenon’s resistance to familiar categories signals that human perception may not contain the whole range of reality.

A Hidden Race in the Hills A Hidden Race in the Hills from "The Colour Out of Space". Human Life at the Edge The Outside Beings Accounts of beings travelling through space turn isolated Vermont hills into a possible outpost of a wider…

A Hidden Race in the Hills from "The Colour Out of Space". Human Life at the Edge The Outside Beings Accounts of beings travelling through space turn isolated Vermont hills into a possible outpost of a wider…

Human Life at the Edge The Outside Beings Accounts of beings travelling through space turn isolated Vermont hills into a possible outpost of a wider civilisation. Perspective Reverses Human observers may be local subjects of study rather than the centre of the story.

The Great Race's Scale The Great Race's Scale from "The Colour Out of Space". Minds Across the Ages Knowledge Beyond Human History The Great Race collects knowledge from species and epochs inaccessible to human scholarship.

The Great Race's Scale from "The Colour Out of Space". Minds Across the Ages Knowledge Beyond Human History The Great Race collects knowledge from species and epochs inaccessible to human scholarship.

Minds Across the Ages Knowledge Beyond Human History The Great Race collects knowledge from species and epochs inaccessible to human scholarship. The Human Era Is Brief Its archives make humanity one entry among many in a long succession of dominant life forms.

A Still Older Enemy A Still Older Enemy from "The Colour Out of Space". No Species Holds the World Forever A Threat Beneath the Surface The Great Race’s victory over the Elder Things cannot remove the possibility of their return.

A Still Older Enemy from "The Colour Out of Space". No Species Holds the World Forever A Threat Beneath the Surface The Great Race’s victory over the Elder Things cannot remove the possibility of their return.

No Species Holds the World Forever A Threat Beneath the Surface The Great Race’s victory over the Elder Things cannot remove the possibility of their return. Civilisation's Fragility Even a technologically powerful species lives under pressures it cannot fully eliminate.

A Shadow Over Human Time A Shadow Over Human Time from "The Colour Out of Space". A Human Life Reframed The Possible Captive Peaslee considers that his lost years may belong to a vast history of minds displaced across time.

A Shadow Over Human Time from "The Colour Out of Space". A Human Life Reframed The Possible Captive Peaslee considers that his lost years may belong to a vast history of minds displaced across time.

A Human Life Reframed The Possible Captive Peaslee considers that his lost years may belong to a vast history of minds displaced across time. No Secure Centrality If his experience is real, human identity and history are temporary parts of a cosmic process beyond human control.

June 1882

1927 to 1928

Great Race era, about 150 million years ago

The Great Race era, after the sealing of the Elder Things

After Peaslee's return from Australia in 1935