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Perelandra' is a sci-fi novel set on the planet of venus, the garden of eden. The book explores the question what might paradise have been like if evil hadn't invaded? The book is based on the biblical account of the temptation of eve on venus.
The only fault of this book, is that it reads at less than 200 pages. It is as profound today as it was when i read it 40 years ago.
Perelandra” by c. Heinlein and arthur c. Perelandra. With his amazing literary skills, c. Heinlein is a master of the art of the short story. This short story is based on an idea by arthur lehman.
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This novel is the worst bit of drivel in a ghastly trio of what are generally classified as science fiction novels. This book is not completely without merit, but it is not nearly as good as out of the silent planet. Book is great – but this particula... Read More
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Gender is a reality and a more fundamental reality than sex
Elwin ransom learns the old solar language and clashes with the antagonist dr
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Clarke were forging a new genre out of the socalled 34weird fiction34 of the 1930s
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“a man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged
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All sentient beings are now humanoid
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But even he might be swayed by the bent ones argument that sin is a prerequisite for maleldils holy gift of redemption to be proffered…lewis wrote this followup to out of the silent planet in 1943
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This novel feels like lewis’ manifesto rejecting these ideas34it is the idea that humanity having now sufficiently corrupted the planet where it arose must at all costs contrive to seed itself over a larger area that the vast astronomical distances which are gods quarantine must somehow be overcome
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But beyond this lies the sweet poison of the false infinitethe wild dream that planet after planet system after system in the end galaxy after galaxy can be forced to sustain everywhere and for ever the sort of life which is contained in the loins of our own speciesa dream begotten by the hatred of death upon the fear of true immortality
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They are not afflicted by gluttony which lewis describes as 34this itch to have things over again as if life were a film that could be unrolled twice34 or idolatry which manifests as an inability 34to turn from the good expected to the given good34
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Biological sex when it is present is merely a surface expression of this deeper reality 34everyone must sometimes have wondered why in nearly all tongues certain inanimate objects are masculine and others feminine
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