The Night Land: Difference between revisions

 

The complete work is available [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10662 here] at Project Gutenberg.

* [[After the End]]: ''Several'' ends: the cataclysmic explosion that blew a 100-mile-deep valley into the Earth; the experiments that let the soul-eating [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]] get to Earth; the death of the Sun.

* [[Always Night]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|Believe it or not.]]

* [[The Future]]

* [[Giant Spider]]: Enormous, burrowing, yellow, and venomous.

* [[Heroic Fantasy]]

* [[Heroic Willpower]]

* [[Narrator]]

* [[Neologism|Neologisms]] such as "Monstruwacan".

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]]: The fact that the Hero doesn't know exactly what happens to the red shirts after they {{spoiler|enter the House of Silence}} freaks him out all the more. It gets to the point that the noises of the other abominations become a comforting distraction.

* [[The Obstructive Love Interest]]: Zig-zagged; she alternates between absurd obstructiveness and considerable competence.

* [[Science Marches On]]: When the book was written, scientists indeed believed the Sun would slowly fade, eventually beyond visibility. We now expect it to get very slowly brighter over the next few billion years, before swelling into a red giant and destroying the Earth. (Though after that it will eventually die back down).

** Also, time scales; we now know the Earth's core will be completely cooled long before the sun runs down.

** Only the Greater Redoubt, really; the Lesser is "only" 3/4 mile tall. Since Burj Dubai will be over 1/2 mile tall when completed, and given that it's made of a far stronger metal than anything on modern Earth, 3/4 mile isn't too tall to be believably self-supporting.

* [[Stalker Without a Crush]]: The Giant Slug.