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A Voyage to Arcturus: A Classic Novel of Metaphysical Fantasy
Paperback
FantasyScience FictionClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617202216
Publisher: Wilder Publications
Published: Jan 27 2011
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus is one of the strangest and most compelling works of modern imaginative fiction, a metaphysical journey disguised as planetary adventure. Maskull travels from Earth to Tormance, a world orbiting Arcturus, where each encounter seems to alter not only his body but his understanding of reality, desire, morality, suffering, identity, and the hidden forces behind existence. The result is not conventional space adventure, but a visionary novel of inner trial, philosophical confrontation, and spiritual disturbance.
The novel combines fantasy, science fiction, allegory, and metaphysical speculation in a form that resists easy classification. Its alien landscapes are less a backdrop than a sequence of tests, each one pushing Maskull toward a deeper and more unsettling perception of life. Beauty, cruelty, longing, belief, and illusion are treated as forces to be endured and interrogated, giving the book an intensity that separates it from ordinary genre fiction.
A landmark for readers interested in philosophical fantasy, early science fiction, visionary literature, symbolic adventure, and the stranger line of British speculative writing, A Voyage to Arcturus has continued to attract serious attention precisely because it refuses to behave like any other novel. This Wilder Publications edition presents Lindsay's singular work as a classic of imaginative literature: austere, difficult, memorable, and unlike anything else in twentieth-century fiction.
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