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Author | William Hope Hodgson |
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Illustrator | Stephen E. Fabian |
Cover artist | Stephen E. Fabian |
Language | English |
Genre | Science fiction |
Publisher | Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. |
Publication date | 1912 (in Poems and the Dream of X) 1977 (stand-alone book) |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (hardback) |
Pages | 141 |
OCLC | 3169834 |
The Dream of X is a novella by English writer William Hope Hodgson, an abridged version of his 1912 science fiction novel The Night Land .
The Night Land was published in England in 1912. At that time, copyright in the United States could not be obtained until a book was printed within the US, but Hodgson was unable to find an American publisher willing to accept his 200,000-word novel. As an alternative, he condensed the narrative to 20,000 words and personally financed a US edition by publisher R. Harold Paget, thereby securing US copyright.
The abridgment was originally published as part of the chapbook collection Poems and the Dream of X in 1912 by R. Harold Paget. It was first published as a stand-alone book in 1977 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. with an introduction by Sam Moskowitz, in an edition of 2,220 copies.