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This is one of the most interesting books I've ever read. Is there anything else like it?

>> No.20897013

>>20896986
synopsis? I've not heard of it until now but cover art makes me think its about either aliens or ancient civs.

>> No.20897021

>>20896986
There is a Greg Bear novel directly inspired by it called City at the End of Time. I found it insufferable but if you don't mind reading something that feels like isekai/YA mix you might like it

>> No.20897036

John C. Wright's Awake in the Night Land.

>> No.20897048

>>20896986
It always intrigues me but then everyone warns against how needlessly dense and boring it is. I wonder if they were simply filtered. I would read it to find out but even WHH abridged it in The Dream of X so I dont know which version to read.

>> No.20897066

>>20897048
It is boring and very dense, but its kind of point. It reads like a travel log. The protagonist informs you about every single meal he takes, every single shelter he seeks, he counts the days, rations the inventory, he methodically surveys the landscape and expertly avoids dangers. There's very little excitement, but then again it's a world where thinking too loudly gets you annihilated by lovecraftian gods, it's a world where every human is fitted with a cyanide pill in their tooth because there are fates far worse than death.

>> No.20897304

>>20896986
House on the Borderland by the same author

>> No.20897307

Someone should make a chart for Hodgson. I'd do it myself, but I haven't read enough of his work to qualify.

>> No.20897335

>>20897048
Even Lovecraft criticised the faux antiqued prose. It really is bizarrely poorly written, compared to House on the Borderland for example.

Still worth the read, if you like such weirdness.

>> No.20897709

>>20897335
>>20897066
Should i read the dream of x instead? Its one thing when people think much of it is unnecessary and when the author himself straight up abridges it

>> No.20897776

Is this another "so strange I can't describe it" manuscript book? I'll pass.

>> No.20897781

>>20897066
Oh that's perfect, thanks

>> No.20897877

>>20896986
>>20896986
>This is one of the most interesting books I've ever read
That has to be a lie.
It's boring as shit.

>> No.20898777

>>20897776
Not really. Been since high school since I read this one, but it's set on Earth in a far-off age where the Sun has died and the last of mankind survives in two pyramids powered by geothermal/divine energy, with spirits/creatures of good and evil scouring the surface. The story is about a solo trek across the surface between the two pyramids.

>> No.20898989

I didn't like it.. The whole idea of these mystic creatures is great, but there is nothing to keep you interested. I cried at the end

>> No.20899002

>>20897776
Nah, if you want weird boomer scifi rings Voyage to Arcturus, that shit was written on drugs. Nightland is a very simple story about doing the impossible for pussy.

>> No.20899407

>>20897021
It was still more readable than TNL itself.

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>>20897036
This book cemented John C. Wright as one of the greatest current writers. Though OP might not like it. I found the original night land lacking, it focused way to little on the world and revealed nothing new as the story prolonged.
Wright took it and really made it into something special, it doesn't just satisfy my nerdy needs it is genuinely emotionally touching like few other fantasy works.

>> No.20900417

>>20897036
This. I'll even say it's superior to the original.