A Voyage to Arcturus

After a strange interstellar journey Maskull a man from Earth awakens alone in a desert on the planet Tormance seared by the suns of the binary star Arcturus. As he journeys northward guided by a drumbeat he encounters a world and its inhabitants like no other where gender is a victory won at dear cost; where landscape and emotion are drawn into an accursed dance; where heroes are killed reborn and renamed; and where the cosmological lures of Shaping who may be God torment Maskull in his astonishing pilgrimage. At the end of his arduous and increasingly mystical quest waits a dark secret and an unforgettable revelation.