From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) C.S. Lewis
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 22:31:57 

On Sun, 28 May 2000 akt@attglobal.net wrote:

> I can see why Lewis never published "Prelude to Space." It's awful, just
> awful! 

Yeah, I don't know that Walter Hooper is doing Lewis any favors publishing
some of this stuff, but it does give a pretty clear picture of his
thoughts on the matter.

> The fragment of the second one is much better and the title is
> funny: "An Expostulation Against Too Many Writers of Science Fiction."
> Hmmm. I hadn't known that he identified himself at all as a SF writer.

What I think is funny is that he could complain about too many SF writers
in 1959.   What would he think of shelves full of Star Trek tie-ins?

-Rostrum


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