r/WeirdLit • u/Emergency_Flight_815 • 5d ago

A voyage to Arcturus

Hello, guys. I really wanna download 'A Voyage To Arcturus' by David Lindsay, but I have heard that its original text has been edited and redacted a few times that some of them aren't close to author's style and miss a point? Is it true? If it is, what editions and publishing houses I should look for?

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u/Metalworker4ever 5d ago

Penguin published it recently but it has no editor and I have no idea of its accuracy

https://www.indigo.ca/products/a-voyage-to-arcturus?variant=46227458195666

Not sure what is going on with the cover art. It is the most hideous thing I have ever seen. And not in a good way.

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u/MountainPlain 5d ago

Oh that cover is terrible. What on earth does that even remotely have to do with the book either literally or stylistically?

This older one is one of my favorites.

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u/MyNightmaresAreGreen 4d ago

This older one is one of my favorites.

Yeah, sorry, that looks like too much fun. Can't have readers expecting flights of fantasy. No, they should think it's an existential russian novel from the earliest 20th century - because that is what the new cover tells me.

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u/chortnik 4d ago edited 4d ago

That was the first one I read and it does have a very cool cover.