A Voyage to Arcturus (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: David Lindsay
- First Published: 1920
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—theological romance
- Time of Work: Undefined, on another world
- Setting: Tormance, a planet revolving around Arcturus
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fantasy
- Subjects: Other worlds, Space flight or travel, Space ships, stations, or vehicles, Ghosts or apparitions, Reincarnation, Evolution
- Locales: Fictional planets
The Plot
Two Englishmen, Maskull and Nightspore, who attend a London séance are surprised to see an apparition. The apparition is strangled by a newcomer, Krag, who has come into the room where the séance is being held. Krag, who calls himself an emissary of Muspel, the hidden eternal light, offers to take both Maskull and Nightspore to Arcturus with him in search of a demigod called Surture.
Maskull and Nightspore follow Krag to an old Scottish observatory. All three travel to Tormance, a planet orbiting Arcturus, in a spaceship similar to a crystal torpedo that is...
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