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Originally Posted by knivesout Angrybuddhist, nice to see someone whose taste within sf/f seems close to my own. I found the Lieber book a bit minor, but very exciting and also charming in a whimsical way. A Voyage to Arcturus strikes me as a book that you simply have to read more than once, if you liked it at all the first time around. |
It's been over 10 years since I last read A Voyage to Arcturus, I will have to revisit it soon. Btw, C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter to Charles Brady:
The real father of my planet books is David Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus, which you will also revel in if you don't know it. I had grown up on Wells's stories of that kind; it was Lindsay who first gave me the idea that the "scientifiction" appeal could be combined with the "supernatural" appeal.
So, I would highly recommend this book to any fan of C.S. Lewis, or any fan of fantasy, for that matter. It is a classic.