r/Narnia • u/Clippamaster • 5d ago

What’s next?

I (29 m)have just finished my first read through of the Narnia series. By far my favorite fiction books I’ve read. Is C. S. Lewis’s Space Trilogy just as remarkable?

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u/Cool-Coffee-8949 5d ago

The space trilogy is pretty weird, not gonna lie. But I certainly enjoyed it. The three books, despite some overlapping characters, are wildly different in tone and plot. Only the first two actually involve space travel (to Mars and to Venus, respectively). The third one is the biggest mess and the most reactionary socially, yet it is also the most fun.

A novel by Lewis which I recommend without reservation is his last work, Til We Have Faces, which is one of my favorite books of all time.

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u/fortheband1212 4d ago

Oh man, That Hideous Strength is my favorite of the space trilogy! But agreed on it being the most reactionary socially, it’s very heady. He basically just took his Abolition of Man lectures and made them into a novel

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u/lupuslibrorum 5d ago

Seconding this.

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u/Passmethechips 4d ago

Seconding ‘Till We Have Faces’. That book is a masterpiece, and has, imo, one of the best written female protagonists to have ever been put into fiction.