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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