What sort of chimera is this? Is it as archaic as it seems? Is it even edible?įaced with this literary monster, whose flaws intensify its uncanny lustre, we inevitably grope, we pin-holers, for classifications, for the reassuring schemas of genre, epoch, and style. A nightmare romance set in the far-flung future and written in a self-consciously antique dialect, The Night Land might be a mad poet’s prophecy from the eighteenth century or an arch genre workout from the twenty-first. If you are encountering William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land for the first time, you may feel a bit like an angler who drags a bizarre and horrible fish out of the deep, something that rings no bells of recognition. Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Poison Belt (Afterword) Rudyard Kipling’s With the Night Mail (Afterword) | Gordon Dahlquist vs. Muriel Jaeger’s The Man with Six Senses | Bruce Sterling vs. Cicely Hamilton’s Theodore Savage | Mark Kingwell vs. Odle’s The Clockwork Man | Gary Panter vs. Beresford’s Goslings | Annalee Newitz vs. William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land | Astra Taylor vs. Edward Shanks’s The People of the Ruins | Erik Davis vs. Rider Haggard’s When the World Shook | Tom Hodgkinson vs.
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Poison Belt | James Parker vs. Rudyard Kipling’s With the Night Mail (and “As Easy as A.B.C.”) | Joshua Glenn vs. Jack London’s The Scarlet Plague | Matthew De Abaitua vs. Erik Davis - author of such books as TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information and Nomad Codes - provided a new Introduction, which appears online for the first time now. In 2013 HiLoBooks - HILOBROW’s book-publishing offshoot - reissued William Hope Hodgson’s Radium Age sci-fi novel The Night Land (1912) in paperback form.
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