A Voyage to Arcturus

A Pilgrim's Progress dressed up in the garb of a science-fiction adventure, this novel has become a legend of SF history, and is certainly one of the most strangely hypnotic of such works from the early days of the genre. An examination of human morality and mortality, love and passion, good and evil, A Voyage to Arcturus looks at human qualities in their extreme form, and doesn't much like what it sees. It presages the great space trilogy of C. S. Lewis (Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength), and clearly influenced it.