David Lindsay Links
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For current publishers of David Lindsay's works, see the buying links page.
David Lindsay
Wikipedia entry for David Lindsay.
David Lindsay at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
Works online
The Haunted Woman on Gutenberg Australia. Direct link to the text file.
Another free audiobook of A Voyage to Arcturus, at LibriVox.
Serialisation on Brighton & Hove Community Radio. Read by Janina Karpinska and edited by Alan J Cannon. Available at Archive.org (part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 9, more parts to follow). Also see the Facebook page..
A limited preview of the otherwise atrocious Bison Press edition of A Voyage to Arcturus on Google Books allows you to read John Clute's introduction.
Articles, essays & talks
An article from Textualities entitled "David Lindsay: Scottish Genius" about collecting Lindsay, originally published in Scottish Book Collector, August 1987.
The Sleep of the Soul: Night's Pore in Torments: The Blending of Traditional and Swedenborgian Structures of Thought in Lilith, an article by Adelheid Kegler, about George MacDonald, but making reference to A Voyage to Arcturus. (PDF document.)
Douglas A Anderson's short article on Devil's Tor for Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine's Curiosities column.
A podcast from Necronomipod from May 2007, discussing A Voyage to Arcturus. mp3 file, which may not work in all players, lasts just over 1 hour.
An article from the Newquay Voice from December 2004, about David Lindsay, who lived and wrote in Newquay.
An article in Kitsch Magazine, "The Unknown Classic", from Summer 2008, by Ted Hamilton, on "Why A Voyage to Arcturus deserves a place on our bookshelves".
Article from the Telegraph, "Sacred Mysteries", from March 2005, by Christopher Howse, mentioning that David Lindsay has just got into the Dictionary of National Biography.
Brief article from the Fall 2010 issue of The Bottle Imp, "Many Worlds: David Lindsay and alternative realities" by Stuart Kelly.
Reviews
Michael Moorcock's review of the Savoy release of A Voyage to Arcturus for the Guardian, from Aug 2002.
SFSite review of A Voyage to Arcturus from 2002.
Mentions
This brief, interesting memoir, Tea with Visiak, contains an anecdote about Lindsay related by his friend, E H Visiak.
An interview with SF/fantasy author John Crowley, which mentions Lindsay.
A talk by Philip Pullman, in which he mentions Lindsay.
A Voyage to Arcturus is mentioned as a possible interest of musician Nick Drake at this site.
Gene Wolfe mentions A Voyage to Arcturus as a "marvellous work of fiction", and "a marvelous example of someone's expressing his theological beliefs in a novel" in this interview.
Miscellaneous
John Coulthart's designs for the Savoy edition of A Voyage to Arcturus.
The Haunted Woman is included in this list of Vasty House-themed fiction (that is, fiction which involves houses bigger on the inside than the outside.)
Paul Burgess use Lindsay's phaens in this online story.
This site on Tarot card interpretation, which lists books relevant to each card, includes A Voyage to Arcturus among those for The Hanged Man.
There is an actress named Joiwind Alexander, and at least one other Joiwind out there. (Thanks to Paul Annis for this information.)
This list of talks from the Practical TeX Proceedings of 2004 features an article, "A simple book design in ConTeXt" that uses A Voyage to Arcturus for its sample text.
There is a band called The Violet Apple, and here is their MySpace page.
Maskull's self-titled album Maskull, released in 1997, can be downloaded from Egg City Radio. Very little seems to be known about this artist, which is called "the strangest record I have heard in a while" at The Walrus music blog.
At Flickr.com, m-evolve has put a set of four images inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus. Also at Flickr, a photo of Stanley Kurt Lester's painting "Who is Surtur". And another image on Flickr, of an Earring Trio inspired by A Voyage to Arcturus.
Other writers & related sites
The website of Garen Ewing (creator of The Rainbow Orchid), who provided the portrait of David Lindsay on the main page. Many thanks!
The Eldritch Dark, dedicated to Clark Ashton Smith.
Directories and sites listing Violet Apple.org
The Sci-Fan site, an excellent resource for news, author information, links, etc.
Intute, a directory of web resources for research and education.
The LibraryThing page for David Lindsay.
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Murray Ewing 2012