"'...thought the old magia of Merlin, which worked in with the spiritual qualities of Nature, loving them and knowing them and reverencing them from within, could be combined with the new goeteia - the brutal surgery from without.'"
-CS Lewis, That Hideous Strength IN Lewis, The Cosmic Trilogy (London, 1990), pp. 349-753 AT CHAPTER 13, 4, p. 648.
Anderson, following Robert Heinlein's Magic, Inc., presents magic as technology in Operation Chaos but switches to the terminology of "goetics" in the sequel, Operation Luna.
Anderson treats Christian characters sympathetically. Lewis imaginatively re-presents Christianity three times:
The Narnia Chronicles
The Ransom ("Cosmic") Trilogy
The Great Divorce
Read Anderson and Lewis.
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