On Writing (and Writers): a Miscellany of Advice and Opinions by C. S. Lewis

Author:C. S. Lewis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-08-23T00:00:00+00:00

Names not too good. They ought to be beautiful and suggestive as well as strange: not merely odd like Enaj (which sounds as if it came out of Butler’s Erewhon).

I hope all this does not enrage you. You’ll get so much bad advice that I felt I must give you some of what I think good.

Letter to Jane Gaskell, September 2, 1957 (CL 3)

GOOD AND BAD TYPES OF SCIENCE-FICTION STORIES

“I am, then, condemning not all books which suppose a future widely different from the present, but those which do so without a good reason, which leap a thousand years to find plots and passions which they could have found at home.”

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