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Volume 7 Number 3 Article 15 10-15-1980 An Inklings Bibliography (14) Joe R. Christopher (emeritus) Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX Follow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore Part of the Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons Recommended Citation Christopher, Joe R. (1980) "An Inklings Bibliography (14)," Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 7 : No. 3 , Article 15. Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol7/iss3/15 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Mythopoeic Society at SWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature by an authorized editor of SWOSU Digital Commons. An ADA compliant document is available upon request. For more information, please contact [email protected]. To join the Mythopoeic Society go to: http://www.mythsoc.org/join.htm Mythcon 51: A VIRTUAL “HALFLING” MYTHCON July 31 - August 1, 2021 (Saturday and Sunday) http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-51.htm Mythcon 52: The Mythic, the Fantastic, and the Alien Albuquerque, New Mexico; July 29 - August 1, 2022 http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-52.htm Abstract A series of bibliographies of primary and secondary works concerning the Inklings. This article is available in Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol7/iss3/15 AN INLINGS BIBLIOGRAPHY (14) COMPILED BY JOE R. CHRISTOPHER Aldiss, Brian, and Harry Harrison (eds.). SF Hori kien also appears in the excerpts from this book pub zons , Vol. 1 and 2 (printed together). New York: lished in Starship, 17:2/38 [Spring 1980], 9-17 [l4- Arno Press, 1975. (In the Arno Press series of 15] , under the title "The Scenes of Life".) volumes of "Science Fiction", ed. R. Reginald and Douglas M elville.) iv + 64 (vol. 1) + ii + 6it (vol. 2) + iv pp. [Lewis, vol. 1, pp. 5-12, Beer, Gillian. The Romance. The Critical Idiom 6it; vol. 2, pp. 3, 4, 6-7, 49, 64.] series, No. 10. London: Methuen and Company, Aldiss and Harrison in 1964 and 1965 published two 1970. viii + 88 pp. Bibliography; index. issues (the only two which ever appeared) of SF Hori [ Lewi s , 2 , 20, 2 2 , 82; T o lk ie n , 3 , 78.3 zons , a critical journal on science fiction. After A small, but generally good, survey of the Romance a two-page statement of policy, the first item which genre from the medieval period (with a few references appeared in the first volume was (a) "C. S. Lewis to ea sier examples) through the nineteenth century, Discusses Science Fiction with Kingsley Amis", pp. wi$h a British orientation. Beer defines the Romance 5-12. This is the tape-recorded conversation between in terms of a group of traits: "the themes of love Lewis, Amis, and Brian Aldiss which was reprinted as and adventure, a certain withdrawal from their own "Unreal Estates" in Spectrum IV: A Science-Fiction societies on the part of both reader and romance hero, A nthology, ed . K in g sle y Amis and R obert Conquest profuse sensuous detail, sim plified characters (often ( New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1965), and in with a suggestion of allegorical significance), a C. S. Lewis's Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories, serene intermingling of the unexpected and the every ed. Walter Hooper (New York: Harcourt, Brace and day, a complex and prolonged succession of incidents World, 1966). (b) The biographical paragraph on usually without a single climax, a happy ending, Lewis at the end of this volume, p. 64, oddiy calls amplitude of proportions, a strongly enforced code of The Screwtape Letters a critical work, and lists it conduct to which all the characters must comply" (p, with The Allegory of Love; perhaps it is a work of 10). The Hobbit (p. 3) and The "Lord of the Rings personal criticism . cycle" (p. 78) are called romances, with the desire In the second volume appears (c) an interview with for dragon's treasure in the former taking the place W illiam Burroughs, au th or o f The Naked Lunch, The of sexual love as the work's theme (p. 3). Lewis's Ticket that Exploded, and other works, under the The Allegory of Love is taken as an authoritative title of "The Hallucinatory Operators Are Real", pp. statement on courtly love romances (pp. 2, 20, 22), 3-12. (The interviewer is anonymous.) Burroughs men being cited on Ovid's Influence, on "polyphonic" nar tions Lewis as one of the science-fiction writers who ratives, and on the courtly love code. Some omissions interest him the most (p. 3); he draws a parallel be in the booklet come near the end, with no mention of tween Lewis's references to the Bent One and his own George MacDonald, of William Morris's late romances, development of Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin, and the con or—for that matter—of Wuther-ing Heights. spiracy in That Hideous Strength is sim ilar to the concept of conspiracies he develops in Nova Express (p. 4); however, he does not necessarily believe in Boyer, Robert H., and Kenneth J. Zahorski (eds.). his conspiracies in the metaphysical sense in which The Fantastic Imagination: An Anthology of High Lewis probably did (pp. 6-7). Later, (d) the editors Fantasy. New York: Avon Books, 1977. x + 326 add a note on "Other Critical Works", pp. 48-50, to pp. [Lewis, 1, 4-5, 8, 49, 99-100, 183, 229- a survey of critical materials on science fiction by 250, 264, 276; Christopher Tolkien, 206n; J. R. James Blish. They give a paragraph to Roger Lancelyn R. Tolkien, 1-2, 4-6, 8, 205-228, 264, 2 9 8 ; W il Green's Into Other Worlds, but find it uninterested liams, 206.] in science and inconsistent in its literary judgments; The editors define high fantasy as "fairy tales and they note that Green, having been under the tutelage myth-based tales" (p. 2), and exclude ghost stories, of Lewis at Oxford, dedicates the book to him and gives folk tales, animal fables, and satirical farces from his two interplanetary novels his highest praise (p. their company. They started with the Intent of In 49). At the end of the volume, (e) C. S. Lewis's cluding MacDonald, Dunsany, Lewis, and Tolkien (p. poem "On the Atomic Bomb: Metrical Experiment", p. 1), presumably as typical representatives; later they 64, is reprinted from Lewis’s Poems, ed. Walter Hoop are called the "now classic English writers of fan er. Overall, the emphasis on Lewis in these volumes tasy" (p. 4), although classic here seems to be Just suggests the British emphasis on the non-pulp tradi a praise term. Also In the introduction, the editors point to the humor in their excerpts from The Voyage tion in science fiction. of the "Dawn Treader" (the excerpts consisting of two chapters, "The Magician's Book" and "The Dufflepuds Asimov, Isaac. In Joy S till Felt: The Autobiography Made Happy") and to the characterization of Gollum of Isaac ASimov, 1954-1978. Garden City, New ("Riddles In the Dark” is reprinted from The Hobbit). York: Doubleday and Company, 1980. x ii + 8 2 6 In the introduction to Johann Ludwig Tieck’s "The pp. Photographs; index. LTolkien, 406-407, Elves", the editors suggest it may have influenced 655.1 MacDonald—and he influenced Tolkien and Lewis (p. 8). The second volume of Asimov's autobiography, cover (They do not seem to know of Tolkien's mixed respon ing from The Caves of Steel (his eleventh book) ses to MacDonald.) In the introduction to a story through Asimov's Sherlocklan Limericks (his one hun by John Buchan, the editors note a reference in Lew dred ninety-first), although a three-page epilogue is's That Hideous Strength to Mark Studdock's unfor brings the count up through two hundred fifteen. His tunate failure to read Buchan's works (pp. 99-100). references to Tolkien are minor: on pp. 406-407 he The style of H. E. Bates, In "The Peach-Tree", is recounts the background of his winning the "Best All- compared, not unfavorably, with that of Lewis in tim e Novel S e r ie s" Hugo in 1 9 6 6 for his Foundation Perelandra (p. 1 8 3 ). The introduction to Tolkien's Series; Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings was also nom chapter covers largely familiar materials (pp. 205- inated, and Asimov assumes the organizers of that 207), with the Inklings mentioned and Christopher World Science Fiction Convention had intended for Tolkien's editing of The Silmari llion (not then yet Tolkien to win; on p. 655 he tells the background of published) put in a footnote. The biographical his Black Widowers story, "Nothing Like Murder", writ material on Lewis is standard (pp. 229-230); he is ten as an indirect memorial to Tolkien after his death praised for "Juxtaposing the serious and the comic" in 1973. (Note: the first of these references to Tol (p. 230), as the two chapters do. Lloyd Alexander's 43 Prydain is briefly compared to Tolkien's M iddle-earth allegoric trilogy with Out of the Silent Planet. and Lewis's Narnia as a magical other-world (p. 264), Stapledon was publishing Last and F irst Men. Kafka and Ursula K. Le Guin's use of maps is briefly com was being discovered.