Reddit reviews The Night Land: A Love Tale (The Radium Age Science Fiction Series)
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Yes, I have read it. The ideas are great, and redeem the rest of the book somewhat. Hodgson was ahead of his time imaginatively (very interesting takes on technology, the future of evolution, weaponry, the dying Earth, etc) but in The Night Land the writing is simply awful.
It is very repetitive and awkward, so much so that there are several versions of the book out there, with different degrees of editing, etc. I believe this free version is the full text. The one I read was this re-release, which is about 40 pages shorter. Apparently some of his other novels are much better written, specifically The House on the Borderlands.
I would say it is worth reading for its importance to the development of speculative fiction (Lovecraft, C. S. Lewis, and plenty of more modern authors praise Hodgson), but it wasn't a pleasant reading experience.