Tag Archives: Fictional Universes

“So Multifarious and So True”: The C.S. Lewis Blurb for the Fellowship of the Ring

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

C.S. Lewis was the first Tolkien nerd. He was certainly not the last. Middle Earth geeks roam the land, tucking into coffee shop corners with beat up Ballantine editions of The Silmarillion or greeting one another in Quenya at insurance seminars. I’ve … Continue reading →

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C.S. Lewis’ Philosophical Letters About Mice (for Susan Call Hutchison)

Posted on July 20, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

I posted on Monday about a cheeky poem that Lewis wrote about Talking Beasts. You can read about it here. One of our long-term readers here at A Pilgrim in Narnia, Susan Call Hutchison, responded by saying how she loved … Continue reading →

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On a Picture by Chirico: A Proposal about the Creation of Narnia

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

What sorts of things was C.S. Lewis thinking about as he made the sudden turn to Narnia? When you look at the projects on Lewis’ desk, you would hardly guess that he would turn to a children’s fairy tale. Here … Continue reading →

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Love Seeds Over Literature: A Remarkable C.S. Lewis Review of Arthur C. Clarke

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

On Wednesday I wrote about “How 1950s SciFi Superstars Helped C.S. Lewis Fall in Love with Science Fiction Again“–a blog that has been trending since. It was intriguing to see how the quality of Ray Bradbury’s writing, the generosity of Anthony Boucher’s … Continue reading →

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What if C.S. Lewis Wrote Dante’s Inferno? by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Brenton Dickieson

Undoubtedly, one of the 20th century’s most inventive world-builders was Larry Niven. He is perhaps most famous for Known Space, the universe where Ringworld (1970) and another 11 books are set. Niven’s inventions are now scattered in the background of much of … Continue reading →

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