Re: SF: Book recommendations
Steve Hayes <[email protected]> Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:12:04 +0200
| Newsgroups | rec.arts.books,rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.misc,alt.books.inklings,alt.books.cs-lewis |
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| Organization | Khanya Publications |
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On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 09:24:24 -0800, John Ames <[email protected]> wrote: >On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 12:07:27 -0500 >Cryptoengineer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Perelandra is a very strange book. >> >> The whole Space Trilogy is deeply imbued with Lewis's religous >> outlook. > >I'd forgotten 'til revisiting it some years ago that there's a whole >sequence at the end that almost plays like a Christian transcendental- >meditation experience. Very strange book, indeed; captivatingly so. It's the one I like least of Lewis's "space trilogy", but it has some interesting stuff on the banality of evil. If you want to know more about that, see here: <https://khanya.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/tales-from-dystopia-x-the-banality-of-evil/> -- Stephen Hayes, Author of The Year of the Dragon Sample or purchase The Year of the Dragon: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/907935 Web site: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com E-mail: [email protected] or if you use Gmail [email protected]