The Night Land (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: William Hope Hodgson
- First Published: 1912
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—apocalypse
- Time of Work: Millions of years in the future
- Setting: Earth
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Apocalyptic and catastrophe fiction
- Subjects: Escapes, Extrasensory perception or powers, Future, Earth, Reincarnation, Rescue, Apocalypse
- Locales: Earth
The Plot
Although the plot of The Night Land can be described easily, its depth and vision are impossible to convey. The book opens in the English county of Kent, where a young squire has happily wooed and married Mirdath. Mirdath dies in childbirth. Alone and depressed, the narrator enters a dream state and tunes into the consciousness of a youth living millions of years in the future. Thereafter the narrative shifts to the perspective of this youth, who lives in the Great Redoubt, a vast pyramid protected by an Electric Circle drawn from the dying Earth Current. The...
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