6/21/2023 0 Comments Cs lewis voyage to venus![]() ![]() The novel's title is taken from a poem written by David Lyndsay in 1555, Ane Dialog betuix Experience and ane Courteour, also known as The Monarche. In the foreword, Lewis states that the novel's point is the same as that of his 1943 non-fiction work The Abolition of Man, which argues that there are natural laws and objective values that education should teach children to recognise. The novel was heavily influenced by the writing of Lewis's friend and fellow Inkling Charles Williams, and is markedly dystopian in style. The story involves an ostensibly scientific institute, the N.I.C.E., which is a front for sinister supernatural forces. Yet unlike the principal events of those two novels, the story takes place on Earth rather than elsewhere in the Solar System. The events of this novel follow those of Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra (also titled Voyage to Venus) and once again feature the philologist Elwin Ransom. Lewis, the final book in Lewis's theological science fiction Space Trilogy. ![]() ![]() That Hideous Strength: A Modern Fairy-Tale for Grown-Ups is a 1945 novel by C. ![]()
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