Doug Pensinger wrote: > > Mentioning? Out of the Silent Planet was set on Mars, Peralandra on > Venus. Most of the science was ridiculous by todayâs standards but the > creation of alien species to tell a story, however allegorical, is really > the reason these books are classified as s.f. > There is some background on the writing of these books: Tolkien and Lewis wanted to write s.f., Tolkien was set to write on Time-Travel and Lewis on Space-Travel. These are Lewis's books. Tolkien stories were never set in a final form [their preliminary versions are collected under volume IX of the "History of Middle-earth" series, "Sauron Defeated"], but eventually they were recycled to become the Second Age.
Alberto Monteiro
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