This is one of the most interesting books I've ever read. Is there anything else like it?
This is one of the most interesting books I've ever read. Is there anything else like it?
This is one of the most interesting books I've ever read. Is there anything else like it?
synopsis? I've not heard of it until now but cover art makes me think its about either aliens or ancient civs.
There is a Greg Bear novel directly inspired by it called City at the End of Time. I found it insufferable but if you don't mind reading something that feels like isekai/YA mix you might like it
It was still more readable than TNL itself.
John C. Wright's Awake in the Night Land.
This book cemented John C. Wright as one of the greatest current writers. Though OP might not like it. I found the original night land lacking, it focused way to little on the world and revealed nothing new as the story prolonged.
Wright took it and really made it into something special, it doesn't just satisfy my nerdy needs it is genuinely emotionally touching like few other fantasy works.
This. I'll even say it's superior to the original.
It always intrigues me but then everyone warns against how needlessly dense and boring it is. I wonder if they were simply filtered. I would read it to find out but even WHH abridged it in The Dream of X so I dont know which version to read.
It is boring and very dense, but its kind of point. It reads like a travel log. The protagonist informs you about every single meal he takes, every single shelter he seeks, he counts the days, rations the inventory, he methodically surveys the landscape and expertly avoids dangers. There's very little excitement, but then again it's a world where thinking too loudly gets you annihilated by lovecraftian gods, it's a world where every human is fitted with a cyanide pill in their tooth because there are fates far worse than death.
Oh that's perfect, thanks
Even Lovecraft criticised the faux antiqued prose. It really is bizarrely poorly written, compared to House on the Borderland for example.
Still worth the read, if you like such weirdness.
Should i read the dream of x instead? Its one thing when people think much of it is unnecessary and when the author himself straight up abridges it
House on the Borderland by the same author
Someone should make a chart for Hodgson. I'd do it myself, but I haven't read enough of his work to qualify.
Is this another "so strange I can't describe it" manuscript book? I'll pass.
Not really. Been since high school since I read this one, but it's set on Earth in a far-off age where the Sun has died and the last of mankind survives in two pyramids powered by geothermal/divine energy, with spirits/creatures of good and evil scouring the surface. The story is about a solo trek across the surface between the two pyramids.
Nah, if you want weird boomer scifi rings Voyage to Arcturus, that shit was written on drugs. Nightland is a very simple story about doing the impossible for pussy.
>This is one of the most interesting books I've ever read
That has to be a lie.
It's boring as shit.
I didn't like it.. The whole idea of these mystic creatures is great, but there is nothing to keep you interested. I cried at the end