C.S. Lewis's influence

Andy Robertson · 05 Sep 2007, 10:20 · from 2007-September.txt.gz

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From: andywrobertson at clara.co.uk (Andy Robertson)
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:20:05 +0100
Subject: (urth) C.S. Lewis's influence
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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes writes: 

>  grew up with Lewis, had read the
> trilogy several times before tSotT came out, and I quite honestly
> never felt that sense of familiarity in going the other direction.

Ditto, and ditto 

I'm sure Wolfe has read Lewis, but I don't see any sort of direct influence. 

What I do see is that Wolfe in the New/Long/Short sun books is writing in 
the same genre as Lewis in his SF trilogy - religious science fiction that 
presupposes the objective reality of angelic beings and of god - and that 
this is a genre so sparsely exploited today that one may see linkages of a 
type that are not there. 

hartshorn 

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