![]() ![]() Lewis sees that perspective reflected in modern science fiction novels that praise such characters for their use of strength and intellect to dominate others. Devine, an English physicist and businessman respectively, to show his distaste for the view of the pursuit of scientific knowledge as the endless march of progress and the inevitable triumph of human kind. ![]() Lewis finds ways to represent the opposing views on the purpose of science fiction and what those views say about the place of humans in the hierarchy of the universe. ![]() ![]() Due to this, Lewis uses his tale of travel to Mars to specifically explain what he believes about humanity’s nature and argue that humankind cannot forget their moral duty to each other and to other beings, no matter how scientifically “advanced” they might become. Lewis wrote Out of the Silent Planet as a response to what he saw as the “dehumanization” of science fiction, that is, the idea that science fiction had become too much about the strange and wonderful technology that authors could dream up and had moved away from exploring mankind’s place in the universe (as had been the focus of science fiction novels such as the work of Jules Verne or H.G. ![]()
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