6/11/2023 0 Comments Cs lewis cosmic trilogyFor Lewis, as for Tolkien, such stories of derring-do, daunting quests, vistas populated by fantastic yet credible characters accomplished what mere philosophical argument could not. Tolkien hoped to reinvent for a 20th Century audience-an audience they felt was too easily subverted by rampant literary naturalism and modern scientism. “Romance” was Lewis’s catch-all term for the genre most congenial to the science fiction and fairy tale genre he and J. Lewis, 9 August 1939, in The Collected Letters of C. He replied whimsically: “Any amount of theology can now be smuggled into people’s minds under cover of romance without their knowing it.” (C. Lewis, had written to him about the provenance of his first space travel adventure, Out of the Silent Planet, a volume remarkably full of theological insight. Sister Penelope, a winsome, lifelong correspondent of C.
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