XPost: rec.arts.books, rec.arts.sf.written, alt.books.inklings   
   XPost: alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 09:24:24 -0800, John Ames    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 12:07:27 -0500   
   >Cryptoengineer  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Perelandra is a very strange book.   
   >>   
   >> The whole Space Trilogy is deeply imbued with Lewis's religous   
   >> outlook.   
   >   
   >I'd forgotten 'til revisiting it some years ago that there's a whole   
   >sequence at the end that almost plays like a Christian transcendental-   
   >meditation experience. Very strange book, indeed; captivatingly so.   
      
   It's the one I like least of Lewis's "space trilogy", but it has some   
   interesting stuff on the banality of evil.   
      
   If you want to know more about that, see here:   
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
   --   
   Stephen Hayes, Author of The Year of the Dragon   
   Sample or purchase The Year of the Dragon:   
   https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/907935   
   Web site: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm   
   Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com   
   E-mail: shayes@dunelm.org.uk or if you use Gmail hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)