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Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

1980

Lewis, C.S. Out of the Silent Planet—Sources

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Lewis’ Time Machine And His Trip To The Moon, Robert Boenig Jun 1980

Lewis’ Time Machine And His Trip To The Moon, Robert Boenig

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Explores Lewis’s (acknowledged) debt to H.G. Wells’s First Men in the Moon for Out of the Silent Planet. Suggests that “we can only understand Lewis’ fragmentary The Dark Tower by noticing a similar debt to Wells’ The Time Machine.”