Nov 16, 2009

The Magician's Nephew | Overview

Lewis remarks that The Magician's Nephew "is a very important story because it shows how all the comings and goings between our own world and the land of Narnia first began." He had no trouble with the idea that life might exist on other planets, and before writing The Magician's Nephew, he had written three science fiction novels about what life on other planets might be like: Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength. In The Magician's Nephew, Lewis imagines the creation of a new universe, and part of his purpose is to speculate...