A Voyage to Arcturus

by David Lindsay

Overview

This landmark work of speculative fiction follows the adventurer Maskull as he travels to Tormance, the lone planet revolving around the double star system Arcturus. Each new land that Maskull visits is ruled by a different philosophy, and he must navigate each in succession as his body changes in response to the varying environments in which he finds himself. Never sure of his surroundings, Maskull must determine what we will and will not do to survive—a metaphysical inquiry that propels him toward an unforgettable final realization.

A major influence on C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy, A Voyage to Arcturus is a surreal and masterful investigation into the meaning of good and evil, the nature of God, and the origins of the universe.

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940161205655
Publisher:	UnderPress Publisher
Publication date:	03/31/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	539 KB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Lindsay was born into a middle-class Scottish Calvinist family in London, and was brought up partly in Jedburgh, where he had family background. He was educated at Colfe's School, Lewisham,[2] and won a scholarship to university, but for financial reasons went into business, becoming an insurance clerk at Lloyd's of London.[3] He was successful, but his career was interrupted by service in World War I, at the age of 40. He first joined the Grenadier Guards, then the Royal Army Pay Corps, where he was promoted to Corporal.

After the war Lindsay moved to Porth near Newquay in Cornwall with his young wife to become a full-time writer, living there from 1919 to 1929.[4] A Voyage to Arcturus was published in 1920, but it was not a success, selling fewer than six hundred copies. This work has links with Scottish fantasists (for example, George MacDonald, whose work Lindsay was familiar with),[3] and it was in its turn a central influence on C. S. Lewis's Out of the Silent Planet.[5] Also, J. R. R. Tolkien said he read the book "with avidity", and characterised it as a work of philosophy, religion, and morality.[6]

Editorial Reviews

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

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