A Voyage to Arcturus

David Lindsay

• Publisher: Booklassic
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9789635272914
• Subtopic: Science Fiction
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Title
• Chapter 1 - The Seance
• Chapter 2 - In The Street
• Chapter 3 - Starkness
• Chapter 4 - The Voice
• Chapter 5 - The Night of Departure
• Chapter 6 - Joiwind
• Chapter 7 - Panawe
• Chapter 8 - The Lusion Plain
• Chapter 9 - Oceaxe
• Chapter 10 - Tydomin
• Chapter 11 - On Disscourn
• Chapter 12 - Spadevil
• Chapter 13 - The Wombflash Forest
• Chapter 14 - Polecrab
• Chapter 15 - Swalone's Island
• Chapter 16 - Leehallfre
• Chapter 17 - Corpang
• Chapter 18 - Haute
• Chapter 19 - Sullenbode
• Chapter 20 - Barey
• Chapter 21 - Muspel