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Wheel of Genre podcast on A Voyage to Arcturus

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

As part of its look at Gnostic fiction, the Wheel of Genre podcast takes a deep look (about 2 hours 30 minutes) at A Voyage to Arcturus. Search for Wheel of Genre on a podcasting platform, or watch the discussion via YouTube.

New audiobook of A Voyage to Arcturus

Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A new audiobook version of A Voyage to Arcturus came out in August 2025, from classical music label Naxos, produced by Chocolate Fox Audiobooks. The narrator, Matt Addis, is a professional actor and audiobook narrator, who has also narrated audiobooks of The Mabinogion (with authentic-sounding Welsh pronunciation of the names, I was pleased to hear) and Bram Stoker's Lair of the White Worm, among others.

It's unabridged, at 12 hours and 2 minutes in length, but seems to make use of the Gutenberg/Ballantine text from the snippets I've heard at Naxos's site, rather than the original UK text. Purchase links can be found at the Naxos Audiobooks site, and it's available at Audible, Apple Books, and other audiobook sellers.

I Dream With Open Eyes: The Life of David Lindsay

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

For a while I've been meaning to write up my research into David Lindsay's life, and the result has been a short book, I Dream With Open Eyes: The Life of David Lindsay, Author of A Voyage to Arcturus. For more information see the book's page on this site, where it can be bought as a hardback, or read for free on Archive.org. For a bit more information, you can see this post at my blog. Paperback and ebook editions will follow.

Possible early Lindsay essay?

Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

At Wormwoodiana, Douglas A. Anderson reproduces an 1896 article from The Gentleman's Magazine, "The Age of Genius" by David Lindsay. Is it the same David Lindsay as wrote A Voyage to Arcturus? Read the article at Wormwoodiana.

Lindsay novels written prior to Arcturus

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Something of a revelation over at the Wormwoodiana blog, as Mark Valentine unearths some new biographical information about David Lindsay. Lindsay, it turns out, wrote and submitted two novels much earlier than A Voyage to Arcturus: Aletheus (or Altheus) in 1902, and The Confessions of an Egoist in 1908.

For the full story, see Mark Valentine's article Before Arcturus: David Lindsay's Lost Novels over at Wormwoodiana.