Re: SF: Book recommendations
John Ames <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Feb 2026 09:42:50 -0800
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On Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:12:04 +0200 Steve Hayes <[email protected]> wrote: > It's the one I like least of Lewis's "space trilogy", but it has some > interesting stuff on the banality of evil. Yeah, that stuck with me even as an adolescent. It's become a common point of reference in our household over the last decade, as we see one example after another of how the villains we're facing on the home front aren't the swaggering, operatic characters popular culture taught us to expect, but just grotesque, petty creeps operating at scale... > 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/> Thanks for sharing.