I LOVED the space trilogy...Not too many people I know have read them, but great insights into the nature of man and Christianity!
> I LOVED the space trilogy...
I always liked that Ransom was a professor of philology, like Lewis and JRRT were. Tweed in Space!
I read them...."That Hideous Strength" could make a tremendous block buster if done right....I read it for the first time 25 years ago and felt as though Lewis was a prophet...now as I look at the world around me I feel as though he truly was...
Keep the faith and watch out for the "Macrobes!"
The inner subtle satire of our entire western heritage was just wonderful through-out the whole book.
May the powers of "DEEP HEAVEN" protect you...and may we all look forward to the day that our "foot wounds" get their final Healing.
We just had to replace SirKit's copies of The Space Trilogy. We had begun reading it aloud to our two teenagers at night, and the books started falling apart. Of course those were his original ones from the late 60's early 70's in their slipcover.
I LOVED Perelandra, and thought very well of Out of the Silent Planet. That Hideous Strength had some strong material, but overall was weak, IMO, compared to most of C.S. Lewis' work. But That Hideous Strength was actually the most relevant to today's world.
My two cents,
-- Joe