An edition of A Voyage to Arcturus (1920)

A voyage to Arcturus

Commemorative ed.
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An edition of A Voyage to Arcturus (1920)

A voyage to Arcturus

Commemorative ed.
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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.

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English
Pages
372

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Cover of: A Voyage to Arcturus
A Voyage to Arcturus
2017, Standard Ebooks
in English
Cover of: A Voyage to Arcturus
A Voyage to Arcturus
Mar 26, 2009, Wilder Publications, Brand: Wilder Publications
paperback
Cover of: A voyage to Arcturus
A voyage to Arcturus
2003, Wildside
in English
Cover of: A voyage to Arcturus
A voyage to Arcturus
2002, University of Nebraska Press
in English - Commemorative ed.
Cover of: A Voyage to Arcturus (Canongate Classic, No 47)
A Voyage to Arcturus (Canongate Classic, No 47)
April 1993, Canongate Books
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: A Voyage to Arcturus (Ballantine SF Classic 73010)
A Voyage to Arcturus (Ballantine SF Classic 73010)
1968-01-01, Ballantine Books

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Lincoln

Edition Notes

Originally published: New York, Macmillan, 1963.

Series
Bison frontiers of imagination
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.912
Library of Congress
PR6023.I58115 V68 2002, PR6023.I58115V68

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 372 p. ;
Number of pages
372

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3557934M
Internet Archive
voyagetoarcturus00lind_0
ISBN 10
0803280041
LCCN
2002017967
Library Thing
323125
Goodreads
1064084

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