Early life Clive Staples “C.S” Lewis was born in 1898 on November 29, in Belfast Ireland. He had only one sibling, a brother by the name of Warren , who was three years older than him. Though he and his brother were abnormally close, Clive's ,also known as jack to his Friends, …show more content…
He has been refereed to by many as “one of the best loved 20th century christian apologists.” In 1947 he was chosen for the cover of Time Magazine because of his diverse Background as a secular academic, was standing firmly in his Christian based writing. Throughout his life Jack had written and published many incredible series with powerful novels. Some of his most powerful and famous works included the “Space trilogy”, an intense three book series, the first of these three was “Out of the Silent planet” this first novel was apparently written after a conversation with his friend J.R.R Tolkien who agreed to write on time travel while Lewis wrote on space travel. Sadly Tolkien was never able to finish his book called “The Lost Road” which was supposed to link his “Middle Earth” of his “Lord of the rings” series. The second Imbuing novel in this trilogy was “Perelandra”. This novel had a christian based theme which described a new “Garden of Eden” a new Adam and Eve along with a new “Serpent figure” depicting what might have happened if Adam had defeated the serpent and avoided the fall of man. Lastly the third novel, and probably the most intense one, “That Hideous strength” explains the nihilistic science that describes life as meaningless ad disrupts even the most basic human