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John C Wright wrote a nice short story set in William Hope Hodgson's "The Night Land" Awake in the Night https://web.archive.org/web/20090524012412/http://www
by tetris11 1y ago
John C Wright wrote a nice short story set in William Hope Hodgson's "The Night Land"
Awake in the Night
https://web.archive.org/web/20090524012412/http://www.thenightland.co.uk/nightawake.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090524012412/http://www.thenig...
In the side panels are users/readers who drew up their own maps on what they think the Nightscape is.
It has all the romantic mystery of a fantasy tale, whilst still being firmly grounded in reality.
I remember when London's Shard was going up, and I'd see it lit up slightly at night, glowing and ominous and thinking, "this is it: this is the last holdout of humanity."
- jerf 1y agoIt's four stories in the complete set: https://a.co/d/gEdBkYR https://a.co/d/gEdBkYR Wright also has an extended paen to the mentioned Voyage to Arcturus: https://a.co/d/hubUM05 https://a.co/d/hubUM05 which neither I, nor the author, recommend unless you have read and deeply love Voyage to Arcturus, but I mention it because the overlap reading this list was quite uncanny. That is a very, very specific point of overlap. Should the original author ever read this thread I highly recommend Wright to them because of the overlap.
- tetris11 1y ago> Voyage to Arcturus The blurb reads like a Gene Wolf story, surreal in its landscapes and interactions. I will give it a try, and follow up with Wright's book. Thanks for the recommendation!