The Night Land, abridged edition
$33.14
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
19 September 2023
Summary
A romance of the far future, in which humankind has relocated underground, where it is beset by monsters from another dimension-but love leads on.
In the far future, humankind’s survivors huddle below Earth’s frozen surface in a pyramidal fortress-city that, for centuries now, has been under siege by loathsome “Ab-humans,” enormous slugs and spiders, and malevolent “Watching Things” from another dimension. When our unnamed protagonist receives a telepathic distress signal from a woman…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262546423 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262546426 |
| Author: | William Hope Hodgson, Erik Davis |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 19 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 133mm |
| Series: | MIT Press / Radium Age |
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Critics Review
“An absolutely bonkers masterpiece … If Samuel Beckett tripped hard on ayahuasca, he might have come up with something like Hodgson’s genre-defying novel… . A book I know I’ll read again and revisit in reveries for the rest of my life.”
—Weird Studies
”[An] extravagantly baroque vision.”
—Washington Post
About The Author
William Hope Hodgson
Erik Davis is the author of High Weirdness- Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies, Nomad Codes, and the cult classic Techgnosis- Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information. Davis currently teaches at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He writes the Substack publication Burning Shore and has completed a history of LSD blotter art for the MIT Press.
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