Lewis (see Sept. 8) says he began writing sci-fi because a pupil of his took "that dream of interplanetary colonization quite seriously," and because he saw "that thousands of people in one way and another depend on some hope of perpetuating and improving the human race...that a 'scientific' hope of defeating death is a real rival to Christianity."
So he set out to counteract the "scientism" of science fiction, which he saw as immoral , and to apply his moral vision to the genre. "Any amount of theology," he wrote to a friend, "can now be smuggled into people's minds under cover of romance without their knowing it."
Apparently no place in the universe is safe from a man with a Bible and a mission.
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