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(This is not to deny that there are other influences on Lewis’s novels, such as Olaf Stapledon, Milton, Charles Williams, and so forth the reaction against Milton in Perelandra is especially interesting, and rather like the reaction against Wells in Out of the Silent Planet but I am concerned here with Lewis’s debt to Wells.) Keywords

It is my purpose in this paper to trace in some detail the many places in the Ransom trilogy where Lewis is specifically in debt to Wells’s The First Men in the Moon (henceforth designated FMM). Wells’s fantasies or too ungrateful to acknowledge his debt to them. The author would be sorry if any reader supposed he was too stupid to have enjoyed Mr H.G. Certain slighting references to earlier stories of this type… in the following pages have been put there for purely dramatic purposes.

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