A Voyage to Arcturus is a philosophical fantasy novel by David Lindsay. It follows a journey to the planet Tormance, where the protagonist encounters strange landscapes and beings and confronts questions of good, evil, and the meaning of existence. It is worth listening to for its imaginative world and its unsettling, thought-provoking vision.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS.
By David Lindsay
Chapter 1. THE SÉANCE
On a March evening, at eight o’clock, Backhouse, the medium—a fast-rising star in the psychic world—was ushered into the study at
Prolands, the Hampstead residence of Montague Faull. The room was illuminated only by the light of a blazing fire. The host, eying him with indolent curiosity, got up, and the usual conventional greetings were exchanged. Having indicated an easy chair before the fire to his guest, the South American merchant sank back again into his own.
The electric light was switched on. Faull’s prominent, clear-cut features, metallic-looking skin, and general air of bored impassiveness, did not seem greatly to impress the medium, who was
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