My son insisted that we get hold of the Space Trilogy by C.S.Lewis, but this is a very difficult task, since it is not in print often and there are few copies available. During a recent trip to the US I happened to visit a bookstore in Portland that touts itself as being the largest in the world, so I put them to the test and, sure enough, they did have used copies of the Trilogy.
Well, am I ever grateful to my son for his insistence! What a beautiful piece of theologically inspired fiction! The first book seems like a standard Sci-Fi story, although marred by its dating to before the technological space revolution of the late 20th century. The second book becomes unabashedly theological, while still telling an engaging Sci-Fi story (complete with violence, nudity and power struggles), and it can be used to understand the answer to the common question "If there are other planets with a spiritually conscious species, and if Jesus is the only son of God, what would happen to those other guys?" While you get an answer to that question, you also are enlightened about other major aspects of Christian theology. I will tell about the third one when I read it...
I continue to have this feeling that C.S.Lewis was sent to RCIA while in Purgatory to be cleaned of his refusal to join the Catholic Church :)
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