If I already like ...

David Stockhoff · 18 Apr 2012, 12:00 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:00:32 -0400
Subject: (urth) If I already like ...
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On 4/18/2012 1:26 AM, pinlighter wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Stockhoff" 
> <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>
>
>> Wright did a brilliant Hodgson pastiche ... I forget the name of the
>> collection.
>
> "Awake in the Night."
>
> I published Mr Wright's story, in the first collection of Night Land 
> fiction I edited,  ETERNAL LOVE.   It was brilliant, I agree (by far 
> the best thing in the book) but you probably read it in one or other 
> of the Best Of The Year anthologies it was picked up for.
>
> Mr Wright has written several other Night land stories.  I think the 
> best of them all is "The Last Of All Suns," set aboard a 
> nightmare-ridden starship in the last hours before the collapse and 
> rebirth of the Universe (it is nontheless a Night Land story, set in 
> that future).
>
> All his Night Land fiction can be found online for free my website 
> www.thenightland.co.uk.
>
> Yours egobooishly
>
> hartshorn AKA Andy Robertson

Aha! It must have been you who sent me there in the first place. 
Congratulations to you are in order. /Last of All Suns /is the one that 
really sticks in my memory.
>
>
>
>>> .. William Hope Hodgson is great background to
>>> some of Wolfe's horror elements - I'm loving getting familiar with
>>> him.  (Lovecraft goes here too, of course.)
>
> Uh, not really.   Where is Hodgson's influence on Wolfe???
>
> Lovecraft, yes, of course

The extreme futurity and the giant slow-moving evil Beings from outer 
space do feel familiar. And the Redoubt is a bit like Byzantium toward 
the end, hyper-romanticized of course, and thus Nessus as well. But 
that's about all the connections I see.

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