Alex Patterson’s Reviews > Northern Lights > Status Update

How many times has it been pointed out, in academic papers or in blogs, that the Experiment Station of this book mirrors the boarding school of Ishiguro's 'Never Let Me Go', which mirrors The Maw of the game series 'Little Nightmares'?

Wide brown scummed expanses of an estuary extended under a dreary sky to a distant group of coal-spirit tanks, rusty and cobwebbed with pipework, beside a refinery where a thick smear of smoke ascended reluctantly to join the clouds.

Wide brown scummed expanses of an estuary extended under a dreary sky to a distant group coal-spirit tanks, rusty and cobwebbed with pipework, beside a refinery where a thick smear of smoke ascended reluctantly to join the clouds.

That’s a kind of ghost they have there up in those forests. Same size as a child, and they got no heads. They feel there way about at night and if you’re a-sleeping out in the forest they get ahold of you and won’t nothing make ‘em let go.