But they did open a way for those Forces and much harm and Pity did come thereby. LAST WEEK: “And they went back unto their Cities and lived there mayhaps an hundred thousand years and grew wise and cunning in all matters and their Wise People did make dealings and had experiment with those Forces which are Distasteful and Harmful unto Life but they did this in Ignorance for all that they had much wisdom thinking only to Experiment, that they come to greater knowings. SUBSCRIBE to HILOBROW’s serialized fiction via RSS. “A mutant vision like nothing else there has ever been.”
“For all its flaws and idiosyncracies, The Night Land is utterly unsurpassed, unique, astounding,” says China Miéville in his blurb for our edition of the book. Our otherwise unabridged version begins and ends with the most dramatic moments in this epic tale: chapters Two and Eleven. In November, HiLoBooks will publish a beautiful new edition of The Night Land, with an Afterword by Erik Davis. Hodgson’s tale of autochthonic future horror, which influenced H.P. Armed only with a lightsaber-esque weapon called a Diskos, our hero braves every sort of terror en route to rescue a woman he loves but has never met. 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.
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 Watching Things, Silent Ones, Hounds, Giants, “Ab-humans,” Brutes, and enormous slugs and spiders, follows a telepathic distress signal into the unfathomable darkness. New installments will appear each Wednesday for 21 weeks - EXCEPT FOR DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST, DURING WHICH THE SERIALIZATION OF THE NIGHT LAND WILL GO ON HIATUS. HILOBROW is pleased to present the seventh installment of our serialization of William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land.
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