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Title: A Voyage to Arcturus
Author: David Lindsey
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A Voyage to Arcturus
Author: David Lindsey
Year: 1920
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After attending a seance, Maskull, a restless and rootless man, finds himself
embarking on a journey to the planet Tormance, which orbits Arcturus. Alone, he
wanders the startling landscape, open to a bewildering range of experiences
from love to ritual murder, encountering new monsters at every turn,
metamorphosing, constantly seeking the truth about the divinity known as
Shaping, Surtur and Crystalman.
Published in 1920 by Scottish author David Lindsey, A Voyage to Arcturus is a
Science Fantasy novel with extensive philosophical metaphors. Having written
that, so divisive was the novel that half those in attendance would probably
argue even these points. […]
(SF-Fan-Club)
A Voyage to Arcturus was published in 1920, but it was not a success, selling
fewer than six hundred copies. This work was not obviously influenced by
anybody, but further reading shows links with other Scottish fantasists (for
example, George MacDonald, whose work Lindsay was familiar with), and it was in
its turn a central influence on C. S. Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet. Also,
J. R. R. Tolkien said he read the book "with avidity", and praised it as a work
of philosophy, religion, and morality.
(Wikipedia)
A Voyage to Arcturus is a novel by Scottish writer David Lindsay, first
published in 1920. It combines fantasy, philosophy, and science fiction in an
exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with
existence. It has been described by critic and philosopher Colin Wilson as the
"greatest novel of the twentieth century", and was a central influence on C. S.
Lewis's Space Trilogy. Also J. R. R. Tolkien said he read the book "with
avidity", and praised it as a work of philosophy, religion, and morality. It
was made widely available in paperback form when published as one of the
precursor volumes to the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in 1968, featuring a
cover by illustrator Bob Pepper. Lindsay's choice of title (and therefore the
setting of Arcturus) may have been influenced by the nonfictional A Voyage to
the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora published in 1911 by identically-named David
Moore Lindsay.
(Wikipedia)
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