Friday, July 11, 2025

Story Post: Angelic Recoveries of the Inner Abbeys

A lost masterpiece of 60s speculative fiction, blending vivid psychedelic imagery with an allegorical examination of Judeo-Christian eschatology. The author was a contemporary of Lewis and Tolkien.

posted by JonathanDark at 11 Jul 2025 12:14:00 UTC Comments (5)

Comments

Josh: he/they

11-07-2025 12:31:15 UTC

Score 3. I’m not a huge reader of fantasy books but this feels like more acid-trip mysticism than swords n dragons?

Bucky:

11-07-2025 16:38:09 UTC

Score 2

Pros: Vaguely plausible
Cons: Based on stuff that isn’t itself particularly coherent or appealing, sets off the heresy alarms

aria: she/they

11-07-2025 17:56:19 UTC

Score 3. The words are fun, but the title is a little too mystic.

Clucky: he/him

11-07-2025 18:55:13 UTC

Score 3. Its a book, just not one that hooks me into reading it at all

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

11-07-2025 23:01:23 UTC

Score 3 - this feels like a book that I’d see on the shelf of a library, glance and the back cover briefly, and then move on.

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