The Night Land: A Story Retold – James Stoddard, William Hope Hodgson Free Audiobook
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Read by Jason Mills
Format: M4B
Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
Release date: 21-01-16
Audible rating: 4.5 (2 ratings)
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An adventure of both science-fiction and fantasy – one of the great love stories – this is William Hope Hodgson’s masterpiece, rewritten for the modern listener.
Penned in 1912, The Night Land is considered by many to be a work of genius, but one written in a difficult, archaic style that listeners often find impenetrable. As a labor of love, James Stoddard has rewritten Hodgson’s book to bring it to a wider audience.
The story opens in the 19th century but quickly moves to the far future, where the sun has gone out, leaving the world in a darkness broken only by strange lights and mysterious fires. Over the ages, monsters and evil forces have descended to the Earth, compelling the surviving humans to take refuge in a great pyramid of imperishable metal built in a miles-deep chasm. The monsters surround the pyramid in a perpetual siege lasting for eons, waiting for the moment when its defenses will fail.
But one man, born out of his time, must leave the pyramid to seek his long-lost love though all the perils of the Night Land.