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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 15:53:54 -0800, John Ames    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:05:10 +0200   
   >Steve Hayes  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Williams's novels are all fantasy set in *this* world, with the   
   >> irruption of powers from beyond. If you haven't read any of his, I   
   >> recommend starting with "War in Heaven" or "The Place of the Lion".   
   >   
   >Good to know =^_^=   
   >   
   >> I first encountered Narnia just at the time that South Africa had   
   >> become a police state, so Captain Maugrim and the statues in the   
   >> witch's castle made immediate sense to me. I had read the space   
   >> trilogy and Charles Williams several years before, when a lot of the   
   >> symbolism went over my head, but rereading them after Narnia made a   
   >> lot of other things fall into place.   
   >   
   >It's something I never imagined having personal context for, but here   
   >we are... :/   
      
   And I've been writing a chidren's novel about a kid who is given a   
   copy of "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by a neighbour, and is   
   then asked by the secret police to spy on that neighbour. Her family   
   initially say she should be proud to serve her country in that way,   
   but when she reads about Tumnus in LWW she resists, with unpleasant   
   consequences for her, her friends and her family.   
      
      
   --   
   Stephen Hayes, Author of The Year of the Dragon   
   Sample or purchase The Year of the Dragon:   
   https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/907935   
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   E-mail: shayes@dunelm.org.uk or if you use Gmail hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
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