Celebrating the Centenary of A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS
From 2020: a conversation between Lindsay specialist Douglas A. Anderson, Prof Robert A. Davis, & author Nina Allan, discussing the novel & its influence on fantasy writers – hosted by Prof Dimitra Fimi of the University of Glasgow’s Centre for Fantasy & the Fantastic
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6HpKWSLuBM&t=25s
#Scottish #literature #ScienceFiction #fantasy #metaphysics #20thCentury #cultfiction #horror
“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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#Scottish #literature #ScienceFiction #fantasy #metaphysics #20thCentury #cultfiction #horror
David Lindsay’s masterpiece A Voyage to Arcturus was first published in London in 1920 by Methuen & Co. It came dressed in a simple red cloth cover; no dust jacket, just the title and author’s name debossed into the front...
“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/
#Scottish #literature #ScienceFiction #fantasy #metaphysics #20thCentury #cultfiction #horror #CosmicHorror #Lovecraft
Although his two greatest works, A Voyage to Arcturus (1920) and The Haunted Woman (1922) were re-issued as Canongate Classics in the 1980s, the work of David Lindsay has never achieved either the critical or popular acclaim he deserves. Born in 1876 in Lewisham, his parents came from Jedburgh and he spent much of his childhood there. His life […]
“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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#Scottish #literature #ScienceFiction #fantasy #metaphysics #20thCentury #cultfiction
“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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#Scottish #literature #ScienceFiction #fantasy #metaphysics #20thCentury #cultfiction
David Lindsay’s masterpiece A Voyage to Arcturus was first published in London in 1920 by Methuen & Co. It came dressed in a simple red cloth cover; no dust jacket, just the title and author’s name debossed into the front...
📚 Here's another Douglas Adams treat: half an hour with the man himself talking about the writing of Hitchhikers…
#RadioDrama #comedy #ScienceFiction #SciFi #CultFiction #DouglasAdams #writing #literature #BookClub #reading #creativity
🌌 On this day in 1978 the very first episode of the very first version of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy went out on Radio 4. We can't tell you how proud that makes us.
Here's a lovely programme about Douglas and his creation, presented by his friend John Lloyd, that went out on the 40th anniversary.
#RadioDrama #comedy #ScienceFiction #SciFi #CultFiction #DouglasAdams
Nico Cost
Assoc for Scottish Literature
BBC Radio 4
David Wright