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Further to the many posts about CS Lewis, an author that I greatly admire, I have to say that I could never get into the sci-fi trilogy that was given to me as a present. I am a lifelong fan of the 'Chronicles of Narnia,' but I was intrigued by the similarity of 'The Wood Between the Worlds.'...

This article is posted here for discussion. C. S. Lewis and American Pulp Science Fiction By Dale Nelson C. S. Lewis, Oxford don and then Cambridge scholar specializing in medieval and Renaissance literature – an impressionable reader of American science fiction pulps? The inventor of...

I know this is children's book but I liked this book so much.

I'd quibble with "literary secretary" as the best term to describe Hooper's significance. Whatever term one uses, he produced a tall stack of indispensable collections of Lewis's work and saw some interesting posthumous work into print too. I particularly appreciate the three hefty volumes of...

The following is a list of my favorite Christian fantasy authors. Feel free to add a few of your own. Here's the list: 1) Stephen Lawhead 2) Karen Hancock 3) Patrick Carr 4) Jill Williamson :giggle:

Here's a place to discuss a thick collection of academic-style essays on the four authors named -- with plenty of attention having been given to J. R. R. Tolkien. Information about the award-winning essay collection is here: The Inklings and Arthur wins the Mythopoeic Award! The book...

That Hideous Strength really is one of the weirdest books I've ever read. It's closer to a kind of horror fantasy than real SF, and contains several really unsettling scenes and a terrific cast of villains (who, I suspect, each embody something Lewis didn't like). Interestingly, it was reviewed...

Here C.S. Lewis - Articles/News: The Lewis Legacy-Issue 72, Spring 1997 you may find the text of "The End of the Wine," as published in the author's lifetime, and a slightly different version, "The Last of the Wine," as published posthumously in book form. The poem was published shortly...

Lewis wrote on 4 Feb. 1933 to his boyhood friend Arthur Greeves: "Since term began I have had a delightful time reading a children's story which Tolkien has just written. I have told of him before: the one man absolutely fitted, if fate had allowed, to be a third in our friendship in the old...

This was the focus of our children's literature this week. Well it was on Narnia, but it turned into a big discussion about the problem with Susan. How she seems to be excluded from Narnia and is obviously absent in The Last Battle. Lots of thoughts and theories on this. Ranging from misogyny...

Chrons has a subforum for J. R. R. Tolkien. This intention here is to provide a place for people to talk about the Inklings primarily as a group or to talk about some of the members who are less well-known than Tolkien. (It would be fine to talk here about Tolkien as an Inkling, but discussion...

This link http://www.touchstonemag.com/archives/article.php?id=26-01-038-f could as easily have appeared in a Chrons spot dedicated to C. S. Lewis, but we don't have one. I wish the article mentioned that HPL is in the Library of America series. Lovecraft gets a lot more mention from...

I hate to admit this, but I've never read "The Chronicles of Narnia." I now have grandchildren --- the oldest 2 are 8 and 7. Would they enjoy my reading them the Chronicles? Is this a doable project in an hour or two a week? Thanks for your thoughts.:)

I've been delving into Tolkien's work (unpublished in his lifetime) of the second half of the 1920s and well into the 1930s, and commented on some poems by his friend C. S. Lewis here: http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/546889-history-of-middle-earth-50-pages-per-month-6.html#post1786676 An...

Tolkien used to tell his kids stories about Bill Stickers (who will be prosecuted). It appears that C. S. Lewis's in the gang involvement was much deeper. Its leadership was all female. CS Lewis supported secret heritage gang (From Oxford Mail) Bravo, CSL!!

I haven't yet read Aldiss's novel, but I have just learned that Aldiss gave C. S. Lewis a copy. Lewis bought a copy to give to Tolkien. Tolkien sent Aldiss two letters to praise the book. Does Lewis and Tolkien relishing Hothouse make sense to anyone who's read the novel and works by CSL and...

I'm developing an article about the importance of hospitality in imaginative fiction, with a secondary focus on real-life hospitality among such writers. I see hospitality as being a key theme of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings -- I used the word theme rather than element deliberately...

I had just watch prince caspian movie. I had heard that the chronicle of narnia was a series of children's books. Well, do you recommend them to an adult like me? Also, which of the narnia's books is the most exciting, and which, the most dull?

Reading the thread on the growth of the main characters in the Harry Potter books made me think about the same sort of thing in other YA series, specifically the works of CS Lewis. Does anyone else find the following a little, well, odd? We're asked to believe that after the events of...

Can anyone point me to good omnibus editions of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings? Hardcover would be a plus. ISBN numbers would be very useful too.