A Voyage to Arcturus
by:
David Lindsay (author)
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781480258426 (1480258423)
ASIN: 1480258423
Publish date: 2012-11-06
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages no: 186
Edition language: English
I hated this novel. It's really not a sf novel. It is some sort of philosophico-religio-fantasy acid trip (I know it's clumsy) with a sf framework to set up the fantasy. Ultimately it espouses some sort of gnostic reality for the universe. Did Lindsay really personally believe this? If not, wha...
A bizarre mind-blower of a novel. It is sort of a gnostic Pilgrim's Progress. Maskull is transported to the planet Tormance where he undergoes a series a transformations that alter his senses and allow him to perceive the world in different ways. If you are looking for a Science Fiction adventure...
'A Voyage to Arcturus' is a peculiar book, not really science fiction nor any thing else in the traditional sense of the word. The protagonist of the book - if we may call Maskull that - travels to a planet orbiting the star Arcturus, where he is transformed to the varying likenesses of its local in...
Apparently David Lindsay said once that he would never be famous, but that as long as our civilisation endured, at least one person a year would read him. I think he was probably right. This is not a well-written book, and there is very little character development - but it is full of amazing, large...
52 years ago
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