A Voyage to Arcturus

About this book

A séance leads Maskull toward a planet where the senses are unreliable and every encounter rearranges his understanding of existence. On Tormance, mountains, colours and even human bodies seem governed by unfamiliar laws.

David Lindsay sends Maskull from one extraordinary encounter to another, with each inhabitant of Tormance offering a different account of desire, suffering, goodness and creation. The landscape grows more unfamiliar as the arguments deepen. Maskull has to reconsider what he believes at almost every stage of the journey.