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A Voyage to Arcturus: A Visionary Science Fantasy of Alien Worlds, Metaphysical Terror, and the Search for Truth
Hardcover
FantasyScience FictionClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515424727
Publisher: Impact
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A journey to a distant world becomes a violent search for truth, identity, desire, and the meaning behind existence itself. In A Voyage to Arcturus, Maskull travels from Earth to the strange planet Tormance, where alien landscapes, new senses, shifting bodies, and disturbing encounters force him to confront realities far beyond ordinary human understanding. What begins as a voyage of exploration becomes a metaphysical ordeal.
David Lindsay's novel is one of the most unusual works of early twentieth-century speculative fiction. It combines science fiction, fantasy, philosophy, allegory, and spiritual nightmare into a book that refuses easy classification. Tormance is not a simple adventure setting but a world of symbolic trials, each region and character pressing Maskull toward new forms of perception, temptation, suffering, and revelation. The result is strange, severe, visionary, and unforgettable.
First published in 1920, A Voyage to Arcturus became a cult classic admired by readers and writers drawn to speculative fiction at its most ambitious and unsettling. It is a powerful choice for readers interested in philosophical science fiction, visionary fantasy, metaphysical fiction, early speculative literature, and novels that use imagined worlds to ask the largest questions about selfhood, morality, creation, illusion, and ultimate reality.
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