Showing posts with label Shadowlands by Brian Sibley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shadowlands by Brian Sibley. Show all posts

Thursday, 19 March 2015

Which Works By Poul Anderson Might CS Lewis Have Liked?

An Anglican friend has given me Shadowlands: The Story of CS Lewis and Joy Davidman (London, 1985) by Brian Sibley. (The image shows an (American?) edition with a slightly different title but a better cover.)

"...Jack found the majority of conventional science-fiction stories not at all to his taste and preferred the romantic fantasy writers - such as David Lindsay, Ray Bradbury, ER Eddison, Mervyn Peake and Tolkien - to the work of social prophets like Huxley and Orwell or scientific visionaries like Arthur C Clarke." (p. 55)

My comments:

"Jack," of course, is Lewis;

I do not think that I have read this particular Lewis biography before but, in any case, it is worthwhile to either read or reread it;

for previous blog references to Lewis, see here;

I could not get into either David Lindsay's Voyage To Arcturus or George MacDonald's Phantastes, both recommended by Lewis;

I do not share either Sibley's admiration for Lewis' philosophical reasoning or his acceptance of the believability of the settings of Lewis' interplanetary novels;

I accept that the gods (if not God!) think that I should read this book right now;

however, because I also want to continue blogging, I pose the question that is the title of this post.