David Lindsay (1876 - 1945) was a Scottish author now best remembered for the philosophical science fiction novel A Voyage to Arcturus (1920), the major "underground" novel of the 20th century. Like the gnostics he seems to have viewed the "real" world as an illusion, which must be rejected in order to perceive genuine "truth". It combines fantasy, philosophy, and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship...