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"—this fantasy of a night-black, dead planet, with the remains of the human race concentrated in a stupendously vast metal pyramid & besieged by monstrous, hybrid & altogether unknown forces of darkness, is something that no reader can ever forget" (H. P. Lovecraft).

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"One of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written" — H.P.Lovecraft. Lovecraft wasn't wrong: this is, perhaps, the greatest single work of fantastic fiction in the English language. The sun has died, as have the stars. Not a solitary light shines in the heavens. The days of light are nothing by a legend — they are a story told to soothe children. The last millions of humans still live in their Last Redoubt — but the end of their days is at hand.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 357 pages

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