A Voyage to Arcturus (Annotated)

First published in 1920, A Voyage to Arcturus transforms the scientific romance into a severe metaphysical pilgrimage. Its protagonist, Maskull, travels to Tormance, a planet orbiting Arcturus, where altered bodies, new senses, and alien landscapes become instruments for interrogating desire, beauty, suffering, and truth. Lindsay's prose is stark, visionary, and often deliberately unsettling, clos...