C.S. Lewis's influence

Mo Holkar / UKG · 05 Sep 2007, 07:59 · from 2007-September.txt.gz

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From: lists at ukg.co.uk (Mo Holkar / UKG)
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 08:59:58 +0100
Subject: (urth) C.S. Lewis's influence
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At 04:06 05/09/2007, Matt wrote:
>Also they both like beast men.

Don't we all?

I wonder whether Island of Doctor Death in particular represents a 
playing-out of tension in Wolfe's influences between Wells and Lewis. 
Lewis supposedly admired Wells's imagination but despised his 
morality, and I think felt his own SF to be in some sense a counter 
to Wells's work. Can we see Wolfe as the synthesis of this dialectic?

Mo

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