The Night Land
A new edition of William Hope Hodgson's 1912 masterwork. Millions of years in the future, the last remnant of humanity crowds together within city-pyramids under a dead star, the last redoubts against an increasingly hostile world. Through those treacherous wastes of The Night Land, only the...
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A new edition of William Hope Hodgson's 1912 masterwork. Millions of years in the future, the last remnant of humanity crowds together within city-pyramids under a dead star, the last redoubts against an increasingly hostile world. Through those treacherous wastes of The Night Land, only the bravest dare travel. But at the end of the world and of the human race, can love still prevail?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780981224459 (0981224458)
Publish date: April 3rd 2009
Publisher: Prohyptikon Publishing Inc.
Pages no: 444
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Science Fiction,
Horror,
Dystopia,
Apocalyptic,
Post Apocalyptic,
Weird Fiction,
Dying Earth
Nope. Even if we ever get to the scary part I probably wouldn't notice. I swear he was paid by the word. How many different ways did he think he repeatedly needed to say/describe/explain the same thing over and over and over. Pages apparently. YES! We know you love her. YES! We get it! ...
It has taken me about 30 years to finish this book. My parents bought it for me ages ago (because the blurb on the back had a recommendation by HP Lovecraft, that I read a lot of back then) and I've tried several times over the years to get through it. Finally got all the way through, but it was a m...
The book begins in the 17th century. The narrator recounts his wooing of his love, the Lady Mirdath and her death after she gives birth to a child. He experiences a vision of the far future when their future incarnations will meet again. His future self lives in the Last Redoubt, a gigantic pyrami...