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2 unusual facts about A Voyage to Arcturus


The Bull's Hour

The second ship of that kind, Dark Flame, departs from the Solar System on a mission to a habitable planet Tormance (the name is borrowed from David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus) in the Lynx constellation, which was reported by alien space voyagers from Cepheus to be colonized by humans, thought to be Earth escapees from the Age before World Unification.

The Flight to Lucifer

Published during 1979, it was composed as a sequel to the David Lindsay novel A Voyage to Arcturus, which supplied the concept of a voyage through space to a distant planet created by a demiurge, and a few other incidental features of the book.


Gary K. Wolfe

David Lindsay (Starmont House, 1979) - A study of the Scottish author who is remembered for his 1920 novel A Voyage to Arcturus.


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