A Voyage to Arcturus
Paperback
Series: Bison Frontiers of Imagination
FantasyScience FictionClassic Fiction
Please select the version of book you would like to purchase.
ISBN10: 0803280041
ISBN13: 9780803280045
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Apr 1 2002
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.35 Depth: 8.03
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780803280045
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Apr 1 2002
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.35 Depth: 8.03
Language: English
A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturus has inspired, enchanted, and unsettled readers for decades. It is simultaneously an epic quest across one of the most unusual and brilliantly depicted alien worlds ever conceived, a profoundly moving journey of discovery into the metaphysical heart of the universe, and a shockingly intimate excursion into what makes us human and unique. After a strange interstellar journey, Maskull, a man from Earth, awakens alone in a desert on the planet Tormance, seared by the suns of the binary star Arcturus. As he journeys northward, guided by a drumbeat, he encounters a world and its inhabitants like no other, where gender is a victory won at dear cost; where landscape and emotion are drawn into an accursed dance; where heroes are killed, reborn, and renamed; and where the cosmological lures of Shaping, who may be God, torment Maskull in his astonishing pilgrimage. At the end of his arduous and increasingly mystical quest waits a dark secret and an unforgettable revelation. A Voyage to Arcturus was the first novel by writer David Lindsay (1878-1945), and it remains one of the most revered classics of science fiction. This commemorative edition features an introduction by noted scholar and writer of speculative fiction John Clute and a famous essay by Loren Eiseley.
37 different editions
Also available
A Voyage to Arcturus: A Visionary Science Fantasy of Alien Worlds, Metaphysical Terror, and the Search for Truth
Lindsay, David
Hardcover
$28.99
Also in
Science Fiction
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize
Balle, Solvej
Paperback
$14.36
Red Rising 3-Book Box Set: Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star, and an Exclusive Extended Excerpt of Iron Gold
Brown, Pierce
Paperback
$55.10
