Anyone read this?
Once you get used to the pretentious faux 17th century Writing and skim through the middle of the book, it is really unique in its setting. The finale , in my minds eye was one of the most emotional and left a lasting impression. Introduces themes like arcologies, entropy, cosmic horror and post-post-post apocalyptic futures. It was published in 1912.
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The original novel for free on a website.
I think it's interesting if you like post apocalyptic settings. The sun (every star in the galaxy) is dead. Earth is tidally locked, all remaining life sits in a 100 mile deep chasm where the atmosphere hasn't been stripped away and liquid water still exists and the last of humanity is waiting its ultimate destruction when its geothermal power runs cold and it is destroyrd from eldrich horrors that surround them.
Its neat. Entropy and cosmic horror and a questing knight story.
The first third is really great, then he goes outside and it becomes repetitive shit
The whole eating and sleeping routine gets boring pretty fast and around the same time the worldbuilding slows down
The ending was amazing.
>Spend all book being terrified of these monsters
>Future Chainaxe Beowulf fucking slaughters a hundred of them to get his waifu to safety
Yeah it takes some patience or some skimming to get through the tedious journey and its worse after the hero finds the heroine.It picks up later once they spot the great redoubt on the return trip, that part until the end of the book, think is really well done.
Yeah, the imagery is awesome, the guy in broken armor, running for 3 days straight and so angry and tired he can't even remember killing half the things he did. The whole population of the redoubt goes ape-shit berserk watching this dude dragging his lady home, they are so hyped it alerts the eldrich horrors with the sheer psychic gestalt and the whole finale battle was absolutely awesome.
AND THIS YOU SHALL PERCEIVE
this picture and title is my most inner dreamscape
ive had this dream and it is mythological and strange
epub download anywhere?
This was the most annoying shit, I just got flashbacks.
>AND THIS I TELL YOU SO THAT YOU WILL PERCEIVE AND KNOW