Talk:The Night Land

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Paul R. Potts 18:39, 14 March 2007 (UTC) It would be nice to put a description and plot summary of The Dream of X on this page.

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[edit] Fantasy or Science-Fiction?

Is it appropriate to describe The Night Land as fantasy or horror? Surely Science-Fiction would be more appropriate. As the article states, the timeline and the fate of the Sun were consistent with the scientific understanding of the time (i.e. Lord Kelvin's calculations).

Further, the book contains many recognisable SF devices (some of which may be appearing for the first time)- a force-field (can't remember its name, but there's a field which holds back the night creatures), an arcology (the last redoubt) and so forth. X's dream also contains a vision of the evolving technology of the future (e.g. the cities on rails which travel around the Earth to keep up with the Sun).

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? TheAstonishingBadger (talk) 22:25, 3 January 2008 (UTC)