And, tangentially, isn't it odd how very different those three novels are from each other?
On what I suddenly feel is a very shallow and prosaic level, I'll say that Lewis, an early-mid-20th-century SF fan, set out to write some SF (including some anti-colonial satire). Later he said fans complained about him getting the hardware details wrong (ship's shutters etc [ same problem the real US Apollo ships later had ]). So in PERELANDRA he had the hero carried by angels. Then he moved to easier yet territory, present earthly college plus demons -- Charles Williams territory.
OOTSP was portal fantasy, THS was bring the strange things here (urban fantasy + magical realism?).
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Date: 2013-01-19 04:21 am (UTC)On what I suddenly feel is a very shallow and prosaic level, I'll say that Lewis, an early-mid-20th-century SF fan, set out to write some SF (including some anti-colonial satire). Later he said fans complained about him getting the hardware details wrong (ship's shutters etc [ same problem the real US Apollo ships later had ]). So in PERELANDRA he had the hero carried by angels. Then he moved to easier yet territory, present earthly college plus demons -- Charles Williams territory.
OOTSP was portal fantasy, THS was bring the strange things here (urban fantasy + magical realism?).