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A Voyage to Arcturus: A Positronic Book
Hardcover
FantasyScience FictionClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515437260
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Voyage to Arcturus is one of the strangest and most influential works of early twentieth-century speculative fiction. David Lindsay's visionary novel follows Maskull on a journey to the distant world of Tormance, where landscape, body, desire, perception, and identity are remade at every turn. What begins as an interstellar voyage becomes a metaphysical ordeal, a dark pilgrimage through alien regions where each encounter tests the limits of human understanding and strips away ordinary assumptions about reality, morality, beauty, suffering, and the self.
Neither conventional science fiction nor ordinary fantasy, A Voyage to Arcturus stands apart as a philosophical romance of extraordinary force: violent, dreamlike, symbolic, and uncompromising. Its influence has reached writers of fantasy, science fiction, weird fiction, and literary speculation, while its haunting atmosphere and relentless metaphysical pressure continue to attract readers drawn to visionary fiction, cosmic adventure, spiritual allegory, and strange journeys beyond the known world. Explore other exciting Positronic Books devoted to classic science fiction, fantasy, and mystery.
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