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Which Do You Want? Spiritual Corruption or the Baptism of the Imagination? C S Lewis's Space Trilogy

The Meaning Code

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The Unmanned Starts in on the Lady

Lewis didn't have a plan to write the whole trilogy when he wrote the first book. Lewis was like, well, I guess I got to continue this story. And so it turned into this thing. The theme of baptism of imagination is really developed in the first one because it's a ransom and his imagination itself that's being baptized. That's kind of the main theme. It's like discovery and you see, again, this moment of worldview collapse and rebirth.

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