![]() ![]() The ensuing sea jaunt is none too eventful, although things pick up around the halfway point, with the discovery of a pirate ship containing a single inhabitant: a babbling madman.Ī bit later a strange fish-like creature is discovered being harbored by one of the seamen. There's also the fact that very little happens in the novel's first half, involving a young boy who joins a ship manned by Huxtable, a middle-aged mariner in search of his missing son. ![]() Visiak's lofty intentions are evident in the highly refined Milton-esque prose, which is anything but an easy read. Lovecraft, although this novel is a far cry from the pulpy WEIRD TALES style. All three influences are evident in MEDUSA, with Lindsay's peculiar brand of metaphysical horror colliding with a very Miltonian sense of poetic religiosity, all set against a gritty portrayal of life at sea that directly recalls Conrad. Visiak was a close friend of the brilliant David Lindsay, as well as a renowned authority on the works of John Milton and Joseph Conrad. This "Story of Mystery and Ecstasy and Strange Horror" is a fascinating and altogether unique account of sea-bound terror. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001. ![]()
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