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The Night Land

Written by: William Hope Hodgson
Narrated by: Drew Ariana
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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 brooding, chaotic, relentless Watching Things, Silent Ones, Hounds, Giants, "Ab-humans", Brutes, and enormous slugs and spiders, follows a telepathic distress signal into the unfathomable darkness. The Earth's surface is frozen. 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. Armed only with a lightsaber-esque weapon called a Diskos, and fortified only by his sense of honor, our hero braves every sort of terror en route to rescue a woman he loves but has never met.
Public Domain (P)2013 Dreamscape Media, LLC
Science Fiction
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"[Good science fiction stories] give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception of the range of possible experience.... W. H. Hodgson's The Night Land [makes the grade] in eminence from the unforgettable sombre splendour of the images it presents...." (C.S. Lewis)
"For all its flaws and idiosyncrasies, The Night Land is utterly unsurpassed, unique, astounding. A mutant vision like nothing else there has ever been." (China Miéville)

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Lovecraftian World, Victorian Tale

An imaginitive story, the vivid descriptions of a world in complete darkness and the monsters that dwell within being the most memorable parts. The middle had a bad tendency to pad itself with needless repetition and the protagonist was something of a one note character but the world he travels through was enough to overcome it for the most part. Also this story was written in the early 1900s and it shows in several places, so be prepared for some more outdated ideas to come up as given.

The narrator delivered an excellent performance, navigating the verbose language with ease and maintaining a strong character voice throughout. A few sections of monotone delivery but that may be the result of the material more than the actor.

Ultimately, not for everyone but it receives my recommendation.

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