The Space Trilogy
by C.S. Lewis Reading a book the second time, after having read it as a child, is an adventure in perspective. Some of the old "movies" return to the mind, and other observations and ideas occur only the second time around. The things that fascinated a child still entertain, but sometimes, the book rises to a new challenge the young reader never even perceived. The "Space Trilogy" is quite an undertaking for any reader, as it is long and involved, and on some level deals with good and evil, the nature and meaning of life. But on another it is just a really fascinating story that can be taken as fantasy fiction, with bad guys and good guys and worlds of made-up characters and scenery and battles. The books hold up well either way. The review that follows is a retelling - so beware of the famous "spoiler alerts." The series was written so that each book could be read as a stand-alone, or read in sequence, and the installments were published in 1938, 1943, a...
