Review: THE SPACE TRILOGY by CS Lewis

This is old science fiction, with all that implies. Apparently Lewis wrote the first book just because he feared JRR Tolkein liked SF. In the days before probes explored the surfaces of other worlds, there was more fiction than science in the genre and imagination was needed to fill in the huge gaps in knowledge. As a result, neither his Mars nor his Venue resembles our current picture of either planet.

While that's to be expected when reading old SF, Lewis is and was best-known as a Christian author, and as such his attitude toward violence here is extremely hard to justify. In these three books he offers a paradisical world in which death is an accepted part, an edenic world based on murder, and a version of our world where a man is brought from the past to defeat evil by brute force.

It seems that Lewis is saying that the only way to win against the Devil is to beat the snot out of him, and that's why I can't recommend it, even though I really want to.