A Voyage to Arcturus

A stunning achievement in speculative fiction A Voyage to Arcturus has inspired enchanted and unsettled readers for decades. It is an epic quest across one of the most unusual and brilliantly depicted alien worlds ever conceived a profoundly moving journey of discovery into the metaphysical heart of the universe and a shockingly intimate excursion into what makes us human and unique. After a strange 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.