children are evacuated from London in The Lion,
The Witch And The Wardrobe;
Lewis wakes from the dream of The Great Divorce to the sound of a siren;
the man tempted by Screwtape's nephew is killed in an air raid;
the volumes of the Ransom Trilogy are set respectively before, during and after the War.
Lewis wakes from the dream of The Great Divorce to the sound of a siren;
the man tempted by Screwtape's nephew is killed in an air raid;
the volumes of the Ransom Trilogy are set respectively before, during and after the War.
The Ransom Trilogy, Vol III, That
Hideous Strength,
was published in 1945 but set "after the War," thus was near future fiction.
It features both
technological advances and political events that did not happen in our history.
Thus, this novel, like many works by other authors, soon became a "past future."
Although That Hideous Strength is not a future history, its characters
envisage and advocate alternative human futures and the novel is Lewis' response
to Wells' and Stapledon's future histories.
"Forms Of Things Unknown" is set later
along a timeline of continued technological progress so it makes sense that it be read after That
Hideous Strength in the proposed "Cosmic Journeys"
sequence. In this sequence, Vols I and III are interplanetary, Vol II
involves journeys that are made without leaving the surface of the Earth and Vol
IV is in the future.
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