![]() ![]() I have often read bloggers and published authors who encourage writers to have a message on the other hand, I have read as many online aficionados who declare they do not sympathize with ‘message’ fiction, who suggest that the novel or short story is no place for injecting convictions, subtle or otherwise. What have the three books of the Trilogy Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength for the writer?įirst, Lewis excels at choreographing the complex writer’s tango of precept and prose. Lewis’s God is a very ‘big’ God, who rules, in his own way, over the whole of his creation. ![]() Lewis once remarked that reading George MacDonald’s Phantastes was for him a baptism of the imagination reading the Space Trilogy has become for this reader a baptism into the spiritual dimensions of the universe, a transfiguration of mere ‘space’ as a dark, cold, inscrutable void into the ‘heavens’ which embody the variety of life God wills. ![]()
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