Darker Than You Think
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| Darker Than You Think | |
 Dust-jacket from the first edition |
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| Author | Jack Williamson |
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| Illustrator | Edd Cartier |
| Cover artist | A. J. Donnell |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Fantasy Press |
| Publication date | 1948 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 310 pp |
| ISBN | NA |
| OCLC | 1126271 |
Darker Than You Think is a science-fiction novel by the American writer Jack Williamson, published by Fantasy Press in 1948. It was first issued as a novelette in the magazine Unknown in 1940. The novel was notably reprinted by Orion Books in 2003 as volume 38 of their Fantasy Masterworks series[1].
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[edit] Plot introduction
The novel begins with the announcement from an ethnological expedition in Mongolia that among humanity exist people who can turn themselves into animals. When the expedition's leader is killed, his friend, journalist Will Barbee, suspects his alleged colleague, the fascinating April Bell.
Determined to discover the truth, but also attracted by Bell, Barbee finds out that in a very ancient epoch a war took place between humanity (Homo sapiens) and the werewolves (Homo lycanthropus), the former being victorious. The surviving werewolves continued to live hidden among normal men, waiting for the coming of The Son of the Night, a figure who will lead them to recover the supremacy.
[edit] Related
A sequel short-story by Poul Anderson was published in a Williamson tribute anthology during the 1990s.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Brown, Charles N.; William G. Contento. The Locus Index to Science Fiction (2003). Retrieved on 2008-02-20.
[edit] References
- Chalker, Jack L.; Mark Owings (1998). The Science-Fantasy Publishers: A Bibliographic History, 1923-1998. Westminster, MD and Baltimore: Mirage Press, Ltd., 236.
- Tuck, Donald H. (1978). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Chicago: Advent, 462. ISBN 0-911682-22-8.
