<div>The obvious one, to me, is that the series is a trilogy set on three different worlds. The first is set on an old world and deals with a human being coming into contact with that world's native race, which is tall and slender in appearance and which is "better and wiser" than humanity. He discovers that the religion of this alien species is a cognate, at least in some aspects, with his own. The second book deals, in part, with that human being's subsequent adventures on a jungle world in which he is wound unto death and miraculously restored (albeit Lewis retconned the severity of Ransom's wound a little.) The third is set, in part, on the narrator's home world.</div>
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<div>I would also hazard that Ransom's shift in personality from the Tolkienesque hero of Perelandra to the Williamsesque Christian/Arthurian figure of That Hideous Strength may have intrigued Wolfe--a flaw in Lewis's books, Wolfe makes the shifting nature of his narrator the strength and core theme of his own.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Jerry Friedman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jerry_friedman@yahoo.com">jerry_friedman@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im"><br>--- On Wed, 4/15/09, John Watkins <<a href="mailto:john.watkins04@gmail.com">john.watkins04@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Undoubtedly an inadvertent omission--SS has aspects of<br>> Lewis's Ransom books.<br>
</div>...<br><br>I'd be interested if you'd point those out (or some, if there<br>are too many).<br><br>My impression of /Pirate Freedom/ is what James Jordan confirmed--<br>it was a YA book. The time travel is obviously necessary if<br>
you want to have a contemporary (or quasi-modern) become a<br>Pirate of the Caribbean. Brother Ignacio's being the older<br>Chris was predictable for someone who's read a lot of sf, and<br>maybe unnecesary--Chris can try to go back just by going to<br>
the monastery in Cuba, without knowing who he's going to turn<br>into.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Jerry Friedman<br></font>
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