The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson audiobook.

Genre: scifi

The Sun has gone out and the Earth is lit only by the glow of residual vulcanism. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, nearly eight miles high – the Last Redoubt, under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark. These are held back by a Circle of Energy, known as the 'air clog', powered from a subterranean energy source called the 'Earth Current'. For millennia, vast living shapes—the Watchers—have waited in the darkness near the pyramid. It is thought they are waiting for the inevitable time when the Circle's power finally weakens and dies. Other living things have been seen in the darkness beyond, some of unknown origins, and others that may once have been human.

To leave the protection of the Circle means almost certain death, or worse an ultimate destruction of the soul. As the story commences, the narrator establishes mind contact with an inhabitant of another, forgotten Lesser Redoubt. First one expedition sets off to succor the inhabitants of the Lesser Redoubt, whose own Earth Current has been exhausted, only to meet with disaster. After that the narrator sets off alone into the darkness to find the girl he has made contact with, knowing now that she is the reincarnation of his past love.

H. P. Lovecraft describes the novel as 'one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written'. Clark Ashton Smith wrote of it that 'In all literature, there are few works so sheerly remarkable, so purely creative, as The Night Land.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:45:34) Chapter 02

(01:23:35) Chapter 03

(02:02:57) Chapter 04

(02:36:08) Chapter 05

(03:10:47) Chapter 06

(03:40:49) Chapter 07

(04:09:10) Chapter 08

(04:55:59) Chapter 09

(05:40:24) Chapter 10

(06:23:34) Chapter 11

(07:06:23) Chapter 12

(07:31:38) Chapter 13

(08:14:24) Chapter 14

(08:53:15) Chapter 15

(09:21:28) Chapter 16

(10:00:17) Chapter 17

(10:35:26) Chapter 18

(11:10:31) Chapter 19

(11:45:02) Chapter 20

(12:22:06) Chapter 21

(13:00:34) Chapter 22

(13:34:42) Chapter 23

(14:13:52) Chapter 24

(14:54:22) Chapter 25

(15:36:27) Chapter 26

(16:09:46) Chapter 27

(16:48:13) Chapter 28

(17:22:39) Chapter 29

(17:57:18) Chapter 30

(18:20:40) Chapter 31

(18:42:58) Chapter 32

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