Most readers of Lewis are aware of his theological writings and his fiction. Having returned from his adventures in Deep Heaven, the philologist-turned-hero, Elwin Ransom, brings together a company of people to thwart the dystopian aims of a British technocratic network.Ĭan a technocracy really happen? Can technicians and scientists truly rule society? Lewis actually had a deep concern about this prospect. That Hideous Strength takes place on Earth, or Thulcandra, “the Silent Planet,” following the first two novels on Malacandra (Mars) and Perelandra (Venus).
That left Lewis with space travel, and he soon launched his famed The Space Trilogy.Įighty years later, the relevance for our current times of his third novel is notable. Tolkien ended up with time travel and wrote two unfinished works related to Silmarillion stories ( The Lost Road and The Notion Club Papers). “I’m afraid we shall have to try and write some ourselves.” Īs the anecdote goes, they flipped a coin to decide who would write about time travel and who would take up space travel. “There is too little of what we really like in stories,” Lewis said. Tolkien, on a walk, agreed that there was a dearth of good writing in “speculative fiction.” Science fiction did not become a popular term until the 1950s, but that is the sort of literature they were thinking about.
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