“I can’t begin to convey to you the power of Lindsay’s vision; I found it overwhelming when I first read the book, thirty years ago, & I’ve seldom seen its equal outside Blake.”
—Philip Pullman
David Lindsay (1876–1945) was born #OTD, 3 March – author of A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS & other weird works
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“The current strength of Scottish weird fiction has its roots in Lindsay’s surreal & stricken work … Lindsay ought to be considered alongside writers like Arthur Machen, William Hope Hodgson & HP Lovecraft as one of the great proponents of cosmic horror.”
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2010/11/many-worlds-david-lindsay-and-alternative-realities/
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“this is a book that counts Clive Barker, Alan Moore, Michael Moorcock, & Jeff Vandermeer among its admirers … Once you read ARCTURUS, you’re always finding chunks of it here & there, like burning fragments of an exploded spaceship smoldering in a field”
—Dan Schwartz on David Lindsay’s cult status
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Celebrating the Centenary of A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS
From 2020: a conversation between Lindsay specialist Douglas A. Anderson, Prof Robert A. Davisl, & author Nina Allan, discussing the novel & its influence on fantasy writers – hosted by the Unversity of Glasgow’s Centre for Fantasy & the Fantastic
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6HpKWSLuBM
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