Lewis, then it is also unclear whether Lewis ever intended to publish it, or had rejected it for whatever reason. Lewis scholar Kathryn Lindskoog has challenged the authenticity of the work, but her views are not universal. Walter Hooper, Lewis' literary executor, gave a title to the fragment and included it in the 1977 collection The Dark Tower and Other Stories. Lewis: Essay Collection & Other Short Pieces (edited by Lesley Walmsley, HarperCollins, 2000) Much of the contents of this collection also appear in C. The remaining works in the collection The Dark Tower and Other Stories are not related to the Space Trilogy at all, so are not discussed here. Like That Hideous Strength, the setting is Earth-bound rather than interplanetary, although it does feature interdimensional travel like the later and more famous Chronicles of Narnia. Elwin Ransom who appears in the canonical trilogy as well as Andrew MacPhee, who also appears in That Hideous Strength in a different guise. In the official canonical Cosmic Trilogy, the novel Perelandra instead became the second book of Lewis' Space Trilogy, and the series was concluded by That Hideous Strength. The Dark Tower appears to be an unfinished sequel of under a hundred pages to the science fiction novel Out of the Silent Planet. Lewis, published after his death in 1977 in the collection The Dark Tower and Other Stories. The Dark Tower is an unfinished science fiction novel, allegedly by Irish author C. The most important events in every age never reach the history books.
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