Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
To be fair, Lewis is pretty clear he means these as preliminary thoughts because he couldn't find anyone talking about the topic seriously at the time.I've only skimmed the essay, but Lewis seems to be overlooking the role of Science Fiction as warning. And thus the whole "dystopian" sub-genre, which we know was already present at the time - e.g. H.G. Wells, "The Time Machine". Not saying he is wrong, just that he is not seeing the whole picture. Science fiction can show us things we want to exist, but it can also show us things we don't.
Based on his experiences in Public School and WWI (he preferred the trench warfare), dystopia may have hit too close to home.
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