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The Night Land: A Love Tale
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The Night Land: A Love Tale
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The Night Land: A Love Tale
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The Night Land: A Love Tale

Written by William Hope Hodgson

Narrated by Drew Ariana

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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In the far future, an unnamed narrator, who along with what remains of the human race dwells uneasily in an underground fortress-city surrounded by brooding, chaotic, relentless Watching Things, Silent Ones, Hounds, Giants, "Ab-humans," Brutes, and enormous slugs and spiders, follows a telepathic distress signal into the unfathomable darkness. The Earth's surface is frozen, and what's worse - at some point in the distant past, overreaching scientists breached "the Barrier of Life" that separates our dimension from one populated by "monstrosities and Forces" who have sought humankind's destruction ever since. Armed only with a lightsaber-esque weapon called a Diskos, and fortified only by his sense of Honor, our hero braves every sort of terror en route to rescue a woman he loves but has never met.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 23, 2013
ISBN9781624068720
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The Night Land: A Love Tale
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William Hope Hodgson

English author William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was known for his works of horror and science-fiction. His first story, The Goddess of Death, was published in 1904. The Night Land, his last printed effort, was published in 1918. Hodgson was also renowned as a photographer and a bodybuilder. He died in battle during World War I at the age of 40.

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  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    A rather infuriating mix of great lovecraftian horror in the first part, and a second part where the reader gets entirely too much exposure to the protagonist/narrator's brand of chivalrous barbarism.I can understand that the story wouldn't have worked as intended if the young girl had been Xena warrior-princess (though actually, events do show that she is more than capable when needed), but sooo many, too many addresses to the reader, useless reminders as if the reader was assumed to have the memory of a goldfish, assumptions that said reader is sympathetic to the narrator's view on all topics including his drivel on the nature of feminity and a proper relationship.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    It's long, a bit repetitive, and has archaic views on love. But it is action packed and very sweet at times. Fun to listen to while doing something else.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    This book is now lining the bottom of our cat's litter box.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I wanted to like this, but the writing stopped me. I have no idea whether it's a good story or not. The writing style is incredibly hard to read; not purple prose (which can be good) nor simply archaic, but very roundabout and fussy and thoroughly getting in the way of whatever story may be there. I got two chapters in and then gave up at the prospect of more. I don't even know what genre it is - it's part of a sci-fi series, but everything I saw looked like historical fiction to me.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The world-building was phenomenal. The virgin-coquette-damsel elements were tiresome. I still can't believe that this book exists - published in 1912 and some of the strangest SciFi I've ever read.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Getting through the Night Land, for both protagonist (reader) is a major challenge. The monotony of the journey over many weeks (hundreds of pages) can lead to despair. Fortunately for the reader you can quit at any time. So why try? Because just as there is occasional respite in the darkness by a fire pit or warm pool, so too are there occasional images of a grim far future that far out do those presented by the far more readable works of Wells, Vance, or Clark Ashton Smith. From the great Redoubt to the Watchers to the tale of rolling cities following the sun on a very slowly turning Earth. Worth the slog through the incredibly repetitious and rtificial language, rampant sexism, and middle school-level sexual yearnings? Hard to say.