The Mask of Circe | The Mask of Circe

At a glance:

Author: Henry Kuttner
First Published: 1971
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Science fiction—mythological
Time of Work: Similar to ancient Greece but contemporaneous with 1940’s Earth
Setting: Primarily a parallel world
Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
Subjects: Memory, Mythology or myths, 1940’s, Gods or goddesses, Greek or Roman times, Reincarnation, Parallel universes or alternate dimensions
Locales: Earth, alternate versions of

The Plot

This story is told, in the ancient tradition, by Jay Seward to a man named Talbot over a campfire in the Canadian woods near the seashore. Three years before, Seward was working on a new method for using drugs to treat psychiatric patients by revealing repressed memories of past crises. He uses the method on himself and unearths latent memories he has inherited from an ancient ancestor—Jason, commander of the Argo in Greek mythology.

The memories haunt Seward. Sometimes he hears a voice calling to Jason. He tries to break the spell by going into the...

The Mask of Circe | The Mask of Circe

At a glance:

The Plot

Join eNotes