8/6/2023 0 Comments Forms of things unknown![]() On Other Worlds is the earliest collection of Lewis’ literary criticism outside of his full-length books. ![]() The result is a highly readable and remarkably early primer on developing and enjoying fictional universes. ![]() ![]() On Other Worlds: Essays and Stories contains Lewis’ short fantasy stories and a number of essays that reflect upon the task of writing in general and fantasy-writing in particular. Lewis was a literary critic as well as a fantasy writer, he thought critically and academically about writing, so it is only natural to turn to his own thoughts about creating these fictive worlds. Fantasy writers carefully construct these fictional universes, and a sophisticated world like Middle Earth or Discworld or Arbol or Cthulhu, with its own maps and languages and sentient races and tax offices, is worth studying.īecause C.S. Unfortunately, what is true in Narnia isn’t always true in the world that most of us reading this live: the growl of the lion in a Narnian forest is a moment of great hope in an American forest, it is a reason to rapidly evolve the necessary appendages for flight. Lewis has led me to the consideration of the fictional universes he created-these are the “real worlds” that sit behind his stories, like the worlds of Narnia in his fantasy novels or the Field of Arbol in his science fiction.
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