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* TheAssimilator: What "sorbing" entails. Creator/CSLewis found this especially disturbing and worked the idea into ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters'', though not by that name.
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* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler: ''Mask''ull.]]
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* MysteriousPast: We never learn anything about the history of [[spoiler:Maskull/Nightspore.]]
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* BioAugmentation: As the story progresses, Maskull's body develops a chest tentacle, a third arm, an extra eye, ''six'' extra eyes, and a forehead protrusion that allows him some degree of telepathy, among others. These mutations are generally replaced as and when the story demands. They also allow Maskull insight into the predominant philosophy of whatever land he is in. Needless to say, it gets pretty weird...
* BodySnatcher: Tydomin, who attempts to trick Maskull into giving her his body to repay his murder of Crimtyphon.
* BodySnatcher: Tydomin, who attempts to trick Maskull into giving her his body to repay his murder of Crimtyphon.
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* BioAugmentation: As the story progresses, Maskull's [[spoiler:Maskull's body develops a chest tentacle, a third arm, an extra eye, ''six'' extra eyes, and a forehead protrusion that allows him some degree of telepathy, among others. These mutations are generally replaced as and when the story demands. They also allow Maskull insight into the predominant philosophy of whatever land he is in. ]] Needless to say, it gets pretty weird...
* BodySnatcher:Tydomin, [[spoiler:Tydomin, who attempts to trick Maskull into giving her his body to repay his murder of Crimtyphon.]]
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''A Voyage to Arcturus'' is a fantasy novel by David Lindsay. First published in 1920, it bombed on release, selling fewer than 600 copies. Fortunately, it has since become recognised as one of the seminal works of fantasy fiction. Writers as influential as Creator/JRRTolkien, Creator/CSLewis, Creator/AlanMoore, Creator/PhilipPullman, Creator/MichaelMoorcock and Creator/CliveBarker have all sung the book's praises, and cited its influence on their work.
The story revolves around the character Maskull, who attends a séance in Hampstead, England. After witnessing bizarre events, he is invited by an acquaintance to journey to Tormance, a planet orbiting the double star system of Arcturus. Travelling there in a crystal spaceship, Maskull awakes to find himself alone in an utterly alien world. Wishing to learn more, he embarks on a journey which takes him through bizarre lands and encounters with beings unlike any on Earth.
Framed as an interstellar voyage, the story is essentially a treatise on philosophy, religion and morality. Each land, and the people it holds, represent a different philosophy or idea. Moreover, as Maskull makes his way across Tormance, he becomes subject to physical changes that grant him new sensory organs. With these organs, he is able to perceive life differently, in accordance with the prevailing ideal of the land. His journey takes him through these various different philosophies, ultimately becoming a quest to discover the meaning of life. The more the story progresses, the more mind-screwy things become...
The story revolves around the character Maskull, who attends a séance in Hampstead, England. After witnessing bizarre events, he is invited by an acquaintance to journey to Tormance, a planet orbiting the double star system of Arcturus. Travelling there in a crystal spaceship, Maskull awakes to find himself alone in an utterly alien world. Wishing to learn more, he embarks on a journey which takes him through bizarre lands and encounters with beings unlike any on Earth.
Framed as an interstellar voyage, the story is essentially a treatise on philosophy, religion and morality. Each land, and the people it holds, represent a different philosophy or idea. Moreover, as Maskull makes his way across Tormance, he becomes subject to physical changes that grant him new sensory organs. With these organs, he is able to perceive life differently, in accordance with the prevailing ideal of the land. His journey takes him through these various different philosophies, ultimately becoming a quest to discover the meaning of life. The more the story progresses, the more mind-screwy things become...
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''A Voyage to Arcturus'' is a fantasy visionary ScienceFantasy novel by David Lindsay. First published On its first publication in 1920, it bombed on release, selling sold fewer than 600 copies. Fortunately, it It has since become recognised as one of the seminal works a great work of fantasy fiction. Writers as influential as Creator/JRRTolkien, Creator/CSLewis, Creator/AlanMoore, Creator/PhilipPullman, Creator/MichaelMoorcock and Creator/MichaelMoorcock, Creator/CliveBarker and prominent literary critic Harold Bloom have all sung the book's praises, praised it and cited it as an influence. At least two professional writers have set out to write sequels. Bloom published his as ''The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy'' (1979). Another, the British sf writer Ian Watson had his attempt discouraged by Lindsay's estate. (How Bloom got away with it, we don't know.)
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* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: Completely averted. Much space is given to describing the completely bizarre geography and biosphere of Tormance. Twin suns, floating trees and pillars of static lightning are the least of it.
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* AlienSea: People can subsist entirely on gnawl water, the reflective lake Irontick is used as a sort of musical instrument; and life forms spontaneously in a certain stream.
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* Dying Race: The phaens. Leehallfae is probably the last one.
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* Dying Race: DyingRace: The phaens. Leehallfae is probably the last one.
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[[MindScrew ...oh, boy]].
''A Voyage to Arcturus'' is a fantasy novel by David Lindsay. First published in 1920, it bombed on release, selling fewer than 600 copies. Fortunately, it has since become recognised as one of the seminal works of fantasy fiction. Writers as influential as Creator/JRRTolkien, Creator/CSLewis, Creator/AlanMoore, Creator/PhilipPullman, Creator/MichaelMoorcock and Creator/CliveBarker have all sung the book's praises, and cited its influence on their work.
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''A Voyage to Arcturus'' is a fantasy novel by David Lindsay. First published in 1920, it bombed on release, selling fewer than 600 copies. Fortunately, it has since become recognised as one of the seminal works of fantasy fiction. Writers as influential as Creator/JRRTolkien, Creator/CSLewis, Creator/AlanMoore, Creator/PhilipPullman, Creator/MichaelMoorcock and Creator/CliveBarker have all sung the book's praises, and cited its influence on their work.
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* BizarreAlienSexes: The phaen are a humanoid species who precipitate directly from thin air and are oriented towards their god. Their pronouns are ae/aer/aerself. There's also Panawe, who was born with an ambiguous gender and later chose to be male (technically, his female self chose to sacrifice herself so he could become entirely male).
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* BodySnatcher: Tydomin, who attempts to trick Maskull into giving her his body to repay his murder of Crimtyphon.
* BornAsAnAdult: Leehallfae, like all phaens.
* CoolAirship: Haunte's boat, which uses "male stones" that push against the female elements in the earth giving an antigravity effect.
* Dying Race: The phaens. Leehallfae is probably the last one.
* EatingOptional: The people of Poolingdred subsist entirely on gnawl water, because they can't bear committing violence even against a leaf.
* BornAsAnAdult: Leehallfae, like all phaens.
* CoolAirship: Haunte's boat, which uses "male stones" that push against the female elements in the earth giving an antigravity effect.
* Dying Race: The phaens. Leehallfae is probably the last one.
* EatingOptional: The people of Poolingdred subsist entirely on gnawl water, because they can't bear committing violence even against a leaf.
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* EmergentHuman: Sullenbode, who normally only briefly attains sentience when in the presence of a suitor and is otherwise a vaguely humanoid blob of pure lust. Maskull's kiss is what finally lets her keep her sentient human form permanently.
* FaceMonsterTurn: Although she killed men by reflex action, once Sullenbode attains permanent human form she's quite likeable.
* FaceMonsterTurn: Although she killed men by reflex action, once Sullenbode attains permanent human form she's quite likeable.
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* FantasticDrug: Polecrab's sap drink, which excites the intellect rather than the emotions.
* FantasticLightSource: Oceaxe's drude stone, which is also handy for cooking fish and a mutagenic.
* FantasyPantheon: Maskull encounters several different interpretations of the local god. Sorting out truth from falsehood is an important plot element.
* FantasticLightSource: Oceaxe's drude stone, which is also handy for cooking fish and a mutagenic.
* FantasyPantheon: Maskull encounters several different interpretations of the local god. Sorting out truth from falsehood is an important plot element.
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* GodAndSatanAreBothJerks: [[spoiler:Crystalman/God's world is based on pleasure, which in fact destroys souls to feed himself. Krag/Satan is Pain, so you're screwed either way.]]
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* AlienSea: People can subsist entirely on gnawl water, the reflective lake Irontick is used as a sort of musical instrument; and life forms spontaneously in a certain stream.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: The Tormance natives.
* BizarreAlienLocomotion: One of the native animals is tripodal and moves by spinning around, and the shrowk is a flying creature with ten finner limbs that act as wings.
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* FisherKingdom: In every new land Maskull travels to, he develops new sensory organs.
* FisherKingdom: In every new land Maskull travels to, he develops new sensory organs.
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[[DescribeTropeHere Describe A Voyage to Arcturus here.]]
[[MindScrew ...oh, boy]].
''A Voyage to Arcturus'' is a fantasy novel by David Lindsay. First published in 1920, it bombed on release, selling fewer than 600 copies. Fortunately, it has since become recognised as one of the seminal works of fantasy fiction.
The story revolves around the character Maskull, who attends a séance in Hampstead, England. After witnessing bizarre events, he is invited by an acquaintance to journey to Tormance, a planet orbiting the double star system of Arcturus. Travelling there in a crystal spaceship, Maskull awakes to find himself alone in an utterly alien world. Wishing to learn more, he embarks on a journey which takes him through bizarre lands and encounters with beings unlike any on Earth.
Framed as an interstellar voyage, the story is essentially a treatise on philosophy, religion and morality. Each land, and the people it holds, represent a different philosophy or idea. Moreover, as Maskull makes his way across Tormance, he becomes subject to physical changes that grant him new sensory organs. With these organs, he is able to perceive life differently, in accordance with the prevailing ideal of the land. His journey takes him through these various different philosophies, ultimately becoming a quest to discover the meaning of life. The more the story progresses, the more mind-screwy things become...
Initially a failure on release, it has since become regarded as arguably one of the most influential works of modern fantasy. Writers as influential as JRRTolkien, Creator/CSLewis, AlanMoore, PhilipPullman, MichaelMoorcock and CliveBarker have all sung the book's praises, and cited its influence on their work.
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* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Justified. The inhabitants of Tormance have extra sensory organs that allow them to communicate with outsiders.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: Completely averted. Much space is given to describing the completely bizarre geography and biosphere of Tormance. Twin suns, floating trees and pillars of static lightning are the least of it.
* BinarySuns: Tormance orbits Arcturus, a twin star composed of Branchspell and Alppain.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Nearly every inhabitant of Tormance seems to have extra sensory organs, based on which land they are a citizen of. They are also able to grow and replace these organs based on circumstance. Maskull himself develops quite a few. See below.
* BioAugmentation: As the story progresses, Maskull's body develops a chest tentacle, a third arm, an extra eye, ''six'' extra eyes, and a forehead protrusion that allows him some degree of telepathy, among others. These mutations are generally replaced as and when the story demands. They also allow Maskull insight into the predominant philosophy of whatever land he is in. Needless to say, it gets pretty weird...
* EditorialSynaesthesia: Used to describe ulfire and jale, the two extra primary colors found in the light of Alppain. The three primary colors of Earth are described via the emotions they conjure in people, then ulfire and jale are contrasted.
-->''"Just as blue is delicate and mysterious, yellow clear and unsubtle, and red sanguine and passionate, so [Maskull] felt ulfire to be wild and painful, and jale dreamlike, feverish, and voluptuous."''
* FasterThanLightTravel: Used in the story via the rather novel means of 'back rays'. In effect, using a form of reverse-light to travel to a light source faster than the speed of light.
* FictionalColour: Ulfire and Jale, two primary colors that exist on Torrance but not on Earth.
* IHaveManyNames: Surter. [[spoiler:Also known as Crystalman, Shaping, and Gangnet.]]
* InterplanetaryVoyage
* MindScrew: The entire world of Tormance. The setting functions not as a fully fleshed, internally consistent world, but as a place where different ideas can be explored by the author.
* RubberForeheadAliens: The inhabitants of Tormance look generally similar to humans, but with extra appendages, and wildly different skin/hair colours.
* RuleOfSymbolism: Judicially used by Lindsay.
* SceneryPorn
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:''You are Nightspore.'']]
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[[MindScrew ...oh, boy]].
''A Voyage to Arcturus'' is a fantasy novel by David Lindsay. First published in 1920, it bombed on release, selling fewer than 600 copies. Fortunately, it has since become recognised as one of the seminal works of fantasy fiction.
The story revolves around the character Maskull, who attends a séance in Hampstead, England. After witnessing bizarre events, he is invited by an acquaintance to journey to Tormance, a planet orbiting the double star system of Arcturus. Travelling there in a crystal spaceship, Maskull awakes to find himself alone in an utterly alien world. Wishing to learn more, he embarks on a journey which takes him through bizarre lands and encounters with beings unlike any on Earth.
Framed as an interstellar voyage, the story is essentially a treatise on philosophy, religion and morality. Each land, and the people it holds, represent a different philosophy or idea. Moreover, as Maskull makes his way across Tormance, he becomes subject to physical changes that grant him new sensory organs. With these organs, he is able to perceive life differently, in accordance with the prevailing ideal of the land. His journey takes him through these various different philosophies, ultimately becoming a quest to discover the meaning of life. The more the story progresses, the more mind-screwy things become...
Initially a failure on release, it has since become regarded as arguably one of the most influential works of modern fantasy. Writers as influential as JRRTolkien, Creator/CSLewis, AlanMoore, PhilipPullman, MichaelMoorcock and CliveBarker have all sung the book's praises, and cited its influence on their work.
!!Tropes
* AliensSpeakingEnglish: Justified. The inhabitants of Tormance have extra sensory organs that allow them to communicate with outsiders.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: Completely averted. Much space is given to describing the completely bizarre geography and biosphere of Tormance. Twin suns, floating trees and pillars of static lightning are the least of it.
* BinarySuns: Tormance orbits Arcturus, a twin star composed of Branchspell and Alppain.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Nearly every inhabitant of Tormance seems to have extra sensory organs, based on which land they are a citizen of. They are also able to grow and replace these organs based on circumstance. Maskull himself develops quite a few. See below.
* BioAugmentation: As the story progresses, Maskull's body develops a chest tentacle, a third arm, an extra eye, ''six'' extra eyes, and a forehead protrusion that allows him some degree of telepathy, among others. These mutations are generally replaced as and when the story demands. They also allow Maskull insight into the predominant philosophy of whatever land he is in. Needless to say, it gets pretty weird...
* EditorialSynaesthesia: Used to describe ulfire and jale, the two extra primary colors found in the light of Alppain. The three primary colors of Earth are described via the emotions they conjure in people, then ulfire and jale are contrasted.
-->''"Just as blue is delicate and mysterious, yellow clear and unsubtle, and red sanguine and passionate, so [Maskull] felt ulfire to be wild and painful, and jale dreamlike, feverish, and voluptuous."''
* FasterThanLightTravel: Used in the story via the rather novel means of 'back rays'. In effect, using a form of reverse-light to travel to a light source faster than the speed of light.
* FictionalColour: Ulfire and Jale, two primary colors that exist on Torrance but not on Earth.
* IHaveManyNames: Surter. [[spoiler:Also known as Crystalman, Shaping, and Gangnet.]]
* InterplanetaryVoyage
* MindScrew: The entire world of Tormance. The setting functions not as a fully fleshed, internally consistent world, but as a place where different ideas can be explored by the author.
* RubberForeheadAliens: The inhabitants of Tormance look generally similar to humans, but with extra appendages, and wildly different skin/hair colours.
* RuleOfSymbolism: Judicially used by Lindsay.
* SceneryPorn
* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:''You are Nightspore.'']]
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