A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturus has
inspired, enchanted, and unsettled readers for decades. It is simultaneously an
epic quest across one of the most unusual and brilliantly depicted alien worlds
ever conceived, a profoundly moving journey of discovery into the metaphysical
heart of the universe, and a shockingly intimate excursion into what makes us
human and unique.
After a strange interstellar journey, Maskull, a man from Earth, awakens
alone in a desert on the planet Tormance, seared by the suns of the binary star
Arcturus. As he journeys northward, guided by a drumbeat, he encounters a world
and its inhabitants like no other, where gender is a victory won at dear cost;
where landscape and emotion are drawn into an accursed dance; where heroes are
killed, reborn, and renamed; and where the cosmological lures of Shaping, who
may be God, torment Maskull in his astonishing pilgrimage. At the end of his
arduous and increasingly mystical quest waits a dark secret and an
unforgettable revelation.
A Voyage to Arcturus was the first novel by writer David Lindsay
(1878–1945), and it remains one of the most revered classics of science
fiction. This commemorative edition features an introduction by noted scholar
and writer of speculative fiction John Clute and a famous essay by Loren
Eiseley.
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