Abraxas is a gigantic space whale, and the book is essentially Veitch's reworking of Moby-Dick. John Isaacs is kidnapped from Earth by a lunatic space captain who is sworn to kill a whale called Abraxas. Isaacs is surgically altered by alien beings, who in turn have their own agenda. Like much of Veitch's early Epic Magazine work, Abraxas is filled with outlandish, sometimes B-rate sci-fi characters and scenarios, and John Isaacs' eventual metaphysical transformation is interesting and challenging. Yet something about the book didn't really connect for me. I thought it intriguing, but not quite able to follow through on its ambitions.