A Voyage to Arcturus - Bison Frontiers of Imagination
Commemorative Edition
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780803280045 |
Publisher: | Bison Books |
Imprint: | Bison Books |
Pub date: | 01 Jun 2002 |
Edition: | Commemorative Edition |
DEWEY: | 823.912 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 372 |
Weight: | 358g |
Height: | 215mm |
Width: | 163mm |
Spine width: | 18mm |