A Voyage to Arcturus

Written by David Lindsay

Narrated by Mark Nelson

A Voyage to Arcturus is a classic science fiction novel by David Lindsay. If you're interested in science fiction but crave something with a little more intellectual heft than your typical space opera, give David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus a try. Widely praised by critics as one of the most philosophically advanced science fiction novels, the book follows two intrepid spiritual seekers through a series of remarkable interstellar adventures.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sheba Blake Publishing Corp.
• Release date: Nov 30, 2021

David Lindsay

David Lindsay (1876-1945) was a British science fiction novelist. Born in London to a Scottish Calvinist family, he excelled as a student at Colfe’s School in Lewisham before embarking on a career in insurance. At 40 years of age, he joined the Grenadier Guards to fight in the First World War, eventually rising to the rank of Corporal. After the war, he moved to Cornwall with his wife Jacqueline to pursue life as a professional writer. A Voyage to Arcturus (1920), although a commercial flop, would go on to earn praise from both C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. His next novel, The Haunted Woman (1922), sold poorly as well, encouraging Lindsay to give up his dream of commercial success in order to produce the stories he wanted to write. Despite this, his ambition flagged by the mid-1930s, no doubt due in part to his strained relationship with Jacqueline and the financial difficulties of managing their boarding house in Brighton. During the Second World War, a German bomb caused considerable damage to their home, the resulting shock from which led to a decline in the author’s physical and mental health. Months before the end of the war, he died from an infection that spread from a severe tooth abscess. In the decades since, scholars and writers alike have praised A Voyage to Arcturus as one of the twentieth century’s finest works of science fiction and fantasy. English novelist and philosopher Colin Wilson dubbed it the “greatest novel of the twentieth century,” while film director Clive Barker has called it “an extraordinary work.”