Inspirations

This page provides a list of sources that have provided inspiration for this setting. Listings are in alphabetical order - not order of importance.

Books

The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe by Edgar Allen Poe
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
Dune Series by Frank Herbert
Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
Helstrom's Hive by Frank Herbert
Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein

Movies

Alien (1979)
Blade Runner (1982)
Predator (1987)
Event Horizon (1997)
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
Pitch Black (2000)
Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
Terminator (1984)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

Television Shows

Altered Carbon (2018 - present)
Babylon 5 (1993 - 1998)
Battlestar Galactica (2004 - 2009)
Dark Matter (2015 - 2017)
Farscape (1999 - 2003)
Firefly (2002)

Video Games

Doom (1993)
Doom 3 (2004)
Half-Life 2 (2004)
Prey (2017)

Music

Aegis by Theatre of Tragedy
Fever Ray by Fever Ray
Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex OST 2
Ghost Reveries by Opeth
Lateralus by Tool

Table of Contents

Dark Horizons is a gothic space opera that seeks to imagine a galaxy where man struggles to survive in a harsh, indifferent universe.

Introduction

A Fear Compendium

Inspirations

Development

A Fear Compendium

Gothic Space Opera

Inspirations

Laying the Groundwork, Part 1

Laying the Groundwork, Part 2

Organizations