Most of the posts at WordsEnvisioned present images from books past, but sometimes, the present should be present. And so with the book below, Sarah Light-Waller’s 2018 Landscape of Darkness.
Hearkening back to the “golden age” of science-fiction – the small myriad (can a myriad be small?) of pulp magazines published from the 1930s through the late 1950s (many forgotten, some inspirational, every one memorable in their own way) Landscape of Darkness – in plot, tempo, and especially characters – was inspired by authors such as Henry Kuttner, Catherine L. Moore, Murray Leinster, and Edmond Hamilton. While an animating aspect of the book is the threat of technological dystopia (is this not so even in reality?) this challenge is overcome – albeit not easily – through human strength, human courage, and ultimately the human spirit. In this, Ms. Light-Waller’s work has the potential expansion into a tale of even greater depth and length.
You can purchase your own copy of Landscape of Darkness (sample chapters available here) directly from Lucina Press, or via Amazon.
