A quick-ish update on A Voyage to Arcturus: We’ve moved its release date from Spring to Summer after it was brought to our attention that multiple versions of the text are floating around. And after doing a deep dive into the book’s publishing history, we’ve decided that our edition should be as reverent to the original as possible because we feel that David Lindsay’s message is too powerful to be adulterated beyond our usual Heathening.

In short, Ballantine Books revised the book in the 1960s in an attempt to make it more palatable for a 60s audience and introduced revisions that significantly and inexplicably altered portions of the text. Since that time, their version has blended in various forms with the original text and rendered many bastard versions, which, sadly, the base text that we initially used for our edition was one.

So, to correct course, we sought out the original 1920 UK Methuen release, which was the only edition proofed by Lindsay himself. Since copies of that edition aren’t cheap, we opted for the next best thing: the 1977 US Gregg Press edition, which was reproduced photographically from the original 1920 edition, and thus contains the exact same text. It wasn’t cheap itself, but worth it for this project!

So, we’ve been using that edition to do a line-by-line read-through and correction of our edition. It has been a lot of work, so far, but absolutely worth it, we believe, because — seriously — A Voyage to Arcturus is a book that operates on a whole other literary level. We’ve never read another book like it, and during our second read-through we felt like we accessed some of its mysteries that weren’t readily accessible or apparent during our first read, and we can only imagine what will be revealed upon our third read!

We place the book alongside The House on the Borderland: it’s like ingesting a psychedelic: you think you’re ready, but you’re not ready.

“The greatest novel of 20th century . . . a tremendous vision . . . Lindsay possessed towering genius.” —Colin Wilson, The Mind Parasites

“David Lindsay—a wonderful writer! A Voyage to Arcturus is a masterpiece! It’s an extraordinary work . . . quite magnificent.” —Clive Barker

“Lindsay was a realist . . . since he singularly refuses to give us even the most provisional final answer to the riddles he sets . . . There is no evasion on Lindsay’s part in leaving his novel on a suspended ending, for that suspended ending is us.” —George Hay, Horror: 100 Best Books

“As a story, its violence and color are enthralling: on a deeper level, it takes us to new worlds of moral experience. And it makes all the symbolic novels of the past ten years look soft.” —The Spectator

“Powerful, stark as the wild dream landscape of Arcturus it so beautifully describes, it makes a tremendous impression on the mind.” —Evening News

“A Voyage to Arcturus demands that David Lindsay be considered not as a mere fascinating one-off, as a brilliant maverick, but as one worthy and deserving of that shamanistic mantle; of the British visionary and apocalyptic legacy.” —Alan Moore

“The book is not allegory but vision. Lindsay’s imagery, often drawn from music, is burning and impressive. He uses words violently and cares nothing of grace . . . But what emerges after sympathetic reading is . . . a sense of the remarkable profundity and coherence of the vision. The message is uncompromising in its purity. The achievement of the book exactly balances the ambition of its intention. This, surely, is rare.” —The London Times

“Arcturus itself is not an ingratiating work; the shelf it occupies is a short one, reserved for titles more often to be found in lists than in reader’s pockets. The message it spells out is no comforting one.” —Fantasy: The 100 Best Books

A Voyage to Arcturus

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• ISBN-13: 9781948316668
• Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.775 inches
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• ISBN-13: 9781963228663
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