A Voyage to Arcturus

David Lindsay

Book 37 of Masterworks of Fantasy

Language: English

Publisher: Wilder Publications

Published: Jun 14, 2004

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Review

Calvinist mysticism, triple-distilled, is the dangerous juice that fuels this blazingly strange Scottish rocket-ship of a novel from 1920... brilliant... unique... -- The Glasgow Herald

Product Description

A Voyage to Arcturus is a novel by the 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 the 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.