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A Voyage to Arcturus, first published in 1920, has been described as the major underground novel of the 20th century. The secret of the book's strangeness and popularity lies in the author's view of the "real" world as an illusion, which must be rejected in order to perceive genuine "truth". Ignored in his own time, Lindsay is today considered to be one of the most important of Scottish writers, a major fantasist bridging the link between George Macdonald and more modern writers such as Alasdair Gray, who have also used surrealism and magic realism in their works.