# Lewis *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 29 May 2000* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alex David Groce *29 May 2000, 16:35* Alga spoke: > I can see why Lewis never published "Prelude to Space." It's awful, just > awful! The fragment of the second one is much better and the title is > funny: "An Expostulation Against Too Many Writers of Science Fiction." > Hmmm. I hadn't known that he identified himself at all as a SF writer. He certainly did to some extent--somewhere or other there's a "conversation" published in which Lewis and some other people (Brian Aldiss is the only one I remember) sit around talking about science-fiction, and Lewis seems to identify himself fairly comfortably as someone who has written inside SF. It's a fairly amusing interview--Aldiss and Lewis' constant requests for another drink or cigar particularly. "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32 ``` Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu) Ph.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department 8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce ``` ---