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The scientifiction novels of C.S. Lewis : space and time in the Ransom stories

Used by C.S. Lewis himself, the term ""scientifiction"" is revived here as it once encompassed not only what we call science fiction, but also that indeterminate field of the 1940s and 1950s sometimes referred to as science fantasy (leading up to Ray Bradbury), along with a portion of that great realm that has come, since the advent of The Lord of the Rings, to be called fantasy. Rather as an eighteenth-century novel may pre-date the divide between novel and romance, so C.S. Lewis''s ""interplanetary"" novels may be considered to pre-date the modern divide between fantasy and science fiction a
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McFarland & Co., Jefferson, N.C., ©2004
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (ix, 194 pages)
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The Ransom stories in their English literary context
Malacandra, or space-travel Out of the silent planet
The dark tower, or An exchange in time
Perelandra, or paradise retained
Thulcandra, or our time under That hideous strength
Lewis's Arcadian science fiction
C.S. Lewis and the myth in Mythopoeia
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010