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Warm, Dark Places: A Positronic Book
Hardcover
Science FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515426073
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Warm, Dark Places is a psychological science fiction novel by Horace L. Gold examining paranoia, identity, and the uneasy boundary between perception and reality.
Best known as the influential editor of Galaxy Science Fiction, Gold brought to his own fiction the same emphasis on interior tension and social unease that defined the magazine's editorial direction. In Warm, Dark Places, speculative elements serve not as spectacle but as instruments for exploring fear, alienation, and the fragility of mental stability.
Rather than relying on technological wonder, Gold's narrative builds atmosphere through psychological pressure. The story reflects mid-century science fiction's shift toward inward conflict and social critique, aligning with the broader movement that reshaped the genre during the postwar period.
A compact and unsettling novel, Warm, Dark Places stands as an example of character-driven speculative fiction emerging from the same creative milieu that produced many of the genre's most enduring works.
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