Lewis was describing not an extra-solar planet but an extra-cosmic hereafter which turns out, in any case, to have been a dream. Thus, Lewis' concerns are far from those of hard sf writers and his own sf is "soft" although he acknowledges that two ideas in The Great Divorce were derived from pulp magazine "scientifiction."
How many characters in sf spend their time in metal shells of spaceships without any description of the universe as seen from space or on the surfaces of terrestroid extra-solar planets without any scientific analysis of planetary environments?
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Diomedes is an interesting planet -- Poul's first attempt at a flying intelligent species. The Ythrians are more subtle.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
And inspired by the work of Hal Clement, whom Anderson greatly admired.
Ad astra! Sean
Here is someone (Chris Wayan) who has been doing science fiction world building and then writing guided tours of them rather than set stories set on them.
One of them is rather similar to Diomedes and while he was creating it found that Poul Anderson had done something similar. So he dedicated that particular world to Anderson & used names from Anderson stories for the places on his planet.
http://www.worlddreambank.org/L/LYR.HTM
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