"Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. We can do just about anything you can imagine to rats. And closing your eyes and refusing to think about this won't make it go away. That is cyberpunk."
--Bruce Sterling
This is an attempt at a Bulgarian translation of a short story, or a novella -- definitions vary, by acclaimed science fiction writer John C. Wright, of "The Golden Age" fame. The novella itself is inspired by "The Night Lands," a relatively unknown classic horror novel, written shortly before WWI by William Hope Hodgson, who died on the battlefield at Ypres. Both the novel itself and the derivative novella employ a deliberately archaic and cumbersome language. H.P. Lovecraft himself described the original work as "one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written".
