Review: Airplane passengers must outrace a killer sun in Into the Night

Series creator Jason George based the new Netflix series Into the Night on a 2015 Polish science fiction novel.

The glorious sight of the sun's rays peeking over the horizon as it rises has inspired mankind for millennia. But what if the sun brought death, literally killing people where they stand? That's the premise behind the pulse-pounding Belgian science fiction drama Into the Night that recently debuted on Netflix. It's a fast-paced, engrossing, and enormously entertaining series that will definitely leave you wanting more.

(Some spoilers below, mostly for the novel.)

The series is based on a 2015 novel called The Old Axolotl, by the visionary Polish science fiction writer Jacek Dukaj, who has been compared to his compatriot, Stanislaw Lem. The novel exists entirely in digital format, designed to be read solely on tablets, smartphones, e-readers, and computers. While most e-books simply recreate the printed text in an electronic medium, Dukaj designed his novel to be something more.

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