Conquistador of the Night Lands
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
The Night Lands are what you see.
The Night Lands are what you eat.
The Night Lands are what you breathe.
Come in to the Night Lands, and we will show you something different,
from your holiday smile, or your most beautiful nightmare,
we'll show you the Redoubt, inside your brain:
"A tour de force" -- James Blaylock, author of ZEUGLODON.
The world has ended; the sun has died, but life goes on.
Join Soad and Weel, defenders of the Redoubt, and
The Producer and Woad, a Hollywood producer and a giant whale,
on a journey to remake all of reality.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this baffling far-future story, reality shifts before the eyes of multiple figures, including shape-changing siblings, a ship captain, and human-alien hybrids. Then Dunn (Julia, Skydaughter) breaks the fourth wall and the story in a disappointing re-examination of the plot and prose of earlier sections. What begins as a delightfully strange world spirals away as soon as the "Robin" referenced is revealed to be Dunn himself. He then discusses his writing with early SF author William Hope Hodgson, completely derailing the proceedings. Further intrusions follow from the grotesquely parodied Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, and Samuel R. Delany. The early chapters' wonderful use of language, Faulkner-style changing narrators, and discussion of the connection between language and myth are lost in a rising sea of overdone references that is best avoided.
