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A Voyage To Arcturus - David Lindsay

Description: ISBN 0575074833 / Genre: Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Author: David Lindsay / Edition: New edition / Paperback / 288 Pages / Book is published ... more

A Voyage To Arcturus - David Lindsay ... 2003-06-12 by Gollancz

Newest Review: ... it involves a distant 'planet' and 'alien beings'. As you might have gathered from my other book reviews I hate to give away ... more

... anything about the plot. I hate to give any spoilers. What I will always try to do is give you a flavour, a taste if you will of what to expect. I went into this cold, never having heard of the book, but the fact that I acquired it I thought why waste an opportunity to read a book with an interesting cover. As soon as I started it I was hooked, well sort of. It begins with the build up to a séance in a well-to-do household in Hampstead. It is in these early stages of the book you think you are going to get into so...more

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A Voyage To Arcturus - David Lindsay: A voyage to... hmmm.. I don't know where. (453 words)
by - written on 09/04/09 (Very useful, 40 readings)
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Before Tolkien and Pratchett and a whole host of other Fantasy writers there was David Lindsay. Who? Well that is not surprising really. Not many, except perhaps the most die-hard fantasy fans, it seems, have heard of him. Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus was published in 1920. It sold about 600 copies, but has since the 1960s been rediscovered and is considered a bit of a cult item. Although I have taken the book to be a Fantasy book, it seems others consider it Science Fiction, perhaps because it involves space travel? Perhaps because it involves a distant 'planet' and 'alien beings'. As you might have gathered from my ... Read the complete review